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Article: The Manor, the Plowman and the Shepherd: Agrarian Themes and Imagery in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance English Literature.
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- Medium Aevum
- Article date:
- September 22, 1995
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The Manor, the Plowman, and the Shepherd is an able and interesting production, directed primarily at the student of late medieval English literature, but one which will sometimes engage the historian as well. At its best it offers readings of real originality, as when Ordelle G. Hill examines together the description of Unite in Piers Plowman and the design of the medieval barn (c. 1205 at Great Coxwell (Berkshire):
Mercy is the name for the mortar made from the water of Christ's baptism and the blood on the cross, and it is used to construct a 'good foundement' upon which the walls of his 'peynes and his passion' ... are built. At Great Coxwell, one of the main ...