Scribal Hermeneutics and the Genres of Social Organization in Piers Plowman

Abstract

This essay argues that critics too often assume that William Langland’s allegorical practice is immaterial. On the contrary, Langland deploys allegorical models here that are thoroughly material—affiliated, as they are, with contemporary genres that memorialize, archive, and legislate labor in lists, guild ordinances, and statutes. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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