Piers Plowman: A New Annotated Edition of the A-Text
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Piers Plowman: A New Annotated Edition of the A-Text, edited by Eric Weiskott, presents the earliest and shortest version of Langland's poem with student-friendly glosses, textual notes, and an introduction situating the A-text's incompleteness and draft status.
Weiskott established the text by consulting manuscripts, corrected previous editorial errors, and provided glosses for non-modern words alongside explanatory footnotes on historical and literary contexts.
The edition aims to make the A-text accessible in classroom settings where the longer B and C versions are impractical, and it facilitates comparative reading strategies such as splicing the A-text to the C-text as medieval readers sometimes did.
Scholarly apparatus includes commentary on language, genre, political themes, and key interpretive cruxes to support students and instructors.
Weiskott established the text by consulting manuscripts, corrected previous editorial errors, and provided glosses for non-modern words alongside explanatory footnotes on historical and literary contexts.
The edition aims to make the A-text accessible in classroom settings where the longer B and C versions are impractical, and it facilitates comparative reading strategies such as splicing the A-text to the C-text as medieval readers sometimes did.
Scholarly apparatus includes commentary on language, genre, political themes, and key interpretive cruxes to support students and instructors.
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Eric Weiskott, "Cycle of Dreams" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021) and "Piers Plowman: A New Annotated Edition of the A-Text" (U Exeter Press, 2025)
