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David Aers

David Aers

James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of English
English
aers@duke.edu
Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
402 Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
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Featured Works

Langland on the church and the end of the cardinal virtues

Journal article Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies · December 1, 2012 Featured Publication This essay argues that William Langland's great poem Piers Plowman poses serious questions both to the tradition of the virtues that Langland inherited and to the possibility of their authentic embodiment in the contemporary Church Langland knew. Moving fr ... Full text Cite