From James Simpson, Piers Plowman: An Introduction to the BText London Longman, 1990

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From James Simpson, Piers Plowman An
Introduction to the B-Text (London Longman, 1990)
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And as the priest who confronts Piers is the
institutionally sanctioned mirror image of what
Piers does, possessing the pastoral authority the
plowman has by nature rather than by appointed
office, so Ymaginatif presents an authorized
version of what Will as a visionary and a maker
aspires to do, to integrate what books and
experience can show. Will, however, conducts his
enterprise outside the institutional sanctions
for using this visionary capacity either as a
memorial image by which he might reform his own
life or as an instument of explicit teaching.
There is no institutional place, Ymaginatif
declares, for a serious imaginative fiction
outside of penitential or didactic purposes."
Anne Middleton, "Narration and the Invention
of Experience Episodic Form in Piers Plowman"
(1982), 112-13.
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From James Simpson, Piers Plowman An
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From James Simpson, Piers Plowman An
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From James Simpson, Piers Plowman An
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From James Simpson, Piers Plowman An
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Harrowing of Hell from BL MS Arundel 83 f.
132v

• Sources
• Psalm 239
• the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus
• Lift up your heads, O ye gates even lift them
  up, ye everlasting doors and the King of glory
  shall come in.
• Isaiah 92
• The people who walked in darkness have seen a
  great light those who dwelt in a land of deep
  darkness, on them has light shined.

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Petites Heures de Jean de Berry, 14th c
Bibliotheque nationale de France
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St. Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109) Cur Deus
Homo (c. 1094-98), the satisfaction theory of
the atonement
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From James Simpson, Piers Plowman An
Introduction to the B-Text (London Longman, 1990)
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The demons of Antichrist seducing men by bribe
and the destruction of sacred images. Lyons, late
15th century.
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