Public Piers Plowman - Modern Scholarship and Late Medieval English Culture - C. David Benson - Paperback Bog - Pennsylvania State University Press -

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The fourteenth-century alliterative poem Piers Plowman was widely popular in its own day. In "Public Piers Plowman", Benson places the poem in the center of late medieval English culture by treating it as a public rather than a personal or elite work.