What Is Charity? William Langland's Answers with Some Diachronic Questions

Charity turns out to be the virtue which is both the root and the fruit of salvation in Langland's Piers Plowman, a late fourteenth-century poem, the greatest theological poem in English. It takes time, suffering and error upon error for Wille, the central protagonist in Piers Plowman, to grasp...

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Main Author: Aers, David 1946- (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: MDPI [2019]
In: Religions
Year: 2019, Volume: 10, Issue: 8, Pages: 1-12
Further subjects:B Piers Plowman
B Theology
B Langland
B Literature
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