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Piers Plowman
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The Vision of Piers Plowman
Carly King
Middle Age Dream Visions
Dreams
Believed in 5 types of dreams, the insomnium (nightmare), the visum (apparition), the oraculum (oracular dream), the visio (prophetic vision), the somnium (enigmatic dream)
Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius (399–422 c.e.), a late Roman author, wrote the Commentary on the Dream of Scipio.
Setting, locus amoenus "pleasant place", often spring, (Langland line, 5)
Director, strong assertive female or male narrator, Holychurch, (Langland line, 75)
Plot, the main "plot" consists of a dream report or an account of the events occurring in the dream itself.
the wake up, story concludes with
the dreamer waking up,
or sometimes it just ends
William Langland
1320-1400, English Poet, married
Elusive, many possible back stories
Understood the danger in writing poetry, changed his name to distance himself from his family
Philosophical reasoning for Middle Age Dream Visions
He is his Work
Heavily religious based poem, very knowledgeable of Christianity
Symbols are people, people are symbols, well educated and creative
Truth, (Langland line 147-151), use of male singular pronoun
Hunger, (Langland page, 388-389), arguing with Piers
1350s and 1360s as a parish priest in Essex and Suffolk
most importantly this poem is a DREAM VISION
Dream vision with allegory to treat more serious philosophical subjects.
14TH century Black Death, high mortality rate lead to extreme economic and social changes, more urban centers less living like the 'Plowman'
(Langland, 28-35)
Dream Visions allow authors to critique their world more freely.
Q: How does this notion compare to Chaucer's depictions of the Plowman ?