Word: plowman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gothic art and the problem of its conservation for later generations of antiquaries and romantics in the 18th and 19th centuries. There is an anxious longing to put everything connected with the Middle Ages on view, no matter how slight its aesthetic import. One half-expects to find Piers Plowman's left clog in the next vitrine. It is a gigantic, semidigestible omnium-gatherum, and the visitor needs time and shoe leather to deal with...
English Professor Derek Pearsall, also a medievalist who says he came to Harvard to work with Bloomfield, praised the professor's publications, "The Seven Deadly Sins: An Introduction to the History of a Religious Concept" and "Piers Plowman as a Fourteenth-Century Apocalypse" in particular...
such as "Piers Plowman," founded a center...
...Lutheran wing of the Reformation was democratic, but only in terms of the church itself, teaching that a plowman did God's work as much as a priest, encouraging lay leadership and seeking to educate...
Edward E. Plowman Washington...