The Gloss and glossing: William Langland's Biblical hermeneutic

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http://eprints.org/relation/isVolatileVersionOf http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/document/3815 http://eprints.org/relation/ispreviewThumbnailVersionOf http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/document/3815 http://eprints.org/relation/isVersionOf http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/document/3815 archive 4031 disk0/00/00/16/74 2011-07-06 14:58:06 2019-01-23 09:54:38 2011-07-19 16:40:09 thesis show 0 Young David John Scase Wendy ftp://ubira.bham.ac.uk/eTheses/1674_Young/ University of Birmingham The Gloss and glossing: William Langland's Biblical hermeneutic unpub BR PE PR 10col_artl William Langland; Piers Plowman; The Glossa Ordinaria; St Augustine; the fourteenth century; glossing; the friars. This thesis investigates the use to which William Langland puts the Glossa Ordinaria to authorise his vision of ethical, social and ecclesiastical reform in Piers Plowman. There was much in late fourteenth-century England to arouse the ire of the reformer and satirist and among Langland's targets was glossing the Bible. Yet the Bible was only available in glossed editions; so why and how did he differentiate between the Glossa Ordinaria and contemporary glossing? The answer seems to lie in the exploitative and dishonest use to which glossing was often put. Langland sees beyond that, however, recognising the ethical perils of linguistic diversity and more serious still, the lack of ethical content in, and even the antinomian tendencies of conventional (mostly Augustinian) understandings of some major Christian doctrines, such as predestination and free will, original sin, grace, the image of God in man, the Incarnation of Christ, and the relationship between wisdom, knowledge and love. This thesis examines the extent to which Langland deviates from these conventional understandings and revisits older understandings with more ethical productivity and a greater motivation for the laity to live ethically. He finds in the Gloss a source of such understandings. 2011-07-14 2011-03 graduation eng Langland, William, Piers Plowman: the A-Version, ed. by George Kane (London: the Athlone Press, 1960. Langland, William, The Vision of Piers Plowman, a Critical Edition of the B-text, ed. by A. V. C. Schmidt (London: J. M. Dent, 1995). Langland, William, Piers Plowman: the C-text, ed. by Derek Pearsall (Exeter: Exeter University Press, 1994). The Patrologia Latinam ed. by J-P. Migne, 221 vols. (Paris: J-P Garnier Freres, 1844-55). author unchecked This unpublished thesis/dissertation is copyright of the author and/or third parties. The intellectual property rights of the author or third parties in respect of this work are as defined by The Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 or as modified by any successor legislation. Any use made of information contained in this thesis/dissertation must be in accordance with that legislation and must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the permission of the copyright holder. public 359 University of Birmingham School of English, Drama and American & Canadian Studies, Department of English Literature d_ph na 2011-07-14 graduation