Piers Plowman As a 14th Century Apocalypse
Book • 1962
Morton Bloomfield's Piers Plowman scholarship argues that Langland's poem exhibits an 'apocalyptic' quality, shifting rapidly between genres and ideas in a way that resembles commentary on an absent authoritative text.
Bloomfield coined influential phrases describing the poem's fragmented, kaleidoscopic structure, shaping subsequent critical approaches to Langland and medieval allegory.
His work explores the poem's thematic complexity, rhetorical modes, and its cultural-historical contexts in fourteenth-century England.
Bloomfield's readings foreground the poem's prophetic and polemical impulses, influencing both editorial practices and interpretive debates in Langland studies.
Bloomfield coined influential phrases describing the poem's fragmented, kaleidoscopic structure, shaping subsequent critical approaches to Langland and medieval allegory.
His work explores the poem's thematic complexity, rhetorical modes, and its cultural-historical contexts in fourteenth-century England.
Bloomfield's readings foreground the poem's prophetic and polemical impulses, influencing both editorial practices and interpretive debates in Langland studies.
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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)
