The Study Guide consists of synopses of all twenty-two Passus [sections] of Langland’s C-Text. Questions on each Passus test your knowledge and are intended as an aid to memory.  References throughout are to Derek Pearsall, ed. Piers Plowman by William Langland: An Edition of the C-Text. York Medieval Texts, second series. London: Edward Arnold, 1981. However, new readers of Piers Plowman should consult Pearsall’s New Annotated Edition of the C -Text, published in 2008 by the University of Exeter Press, reprinted by Liverpool University Press in 2014. The new edition incorporates four major innovations, including a complete revision of the text, which is based as before on Huntington Library MS HM 143, and “side-glosses of hard words” (Preface vii). Quotations from and references to Piers Plowman in the present Guide have been checked against this newest edition.

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