Kindly Similitude: Marriage and Family in Piers Plowman

The imagery of marriage and the family in Piers Plowmanrelated to contemporary social history.

Kindly Similitude is the first study to offer a detailed reading of the many passages in Piers Plowman A, B, and C concerned with marriage and family, and to place them within the frameworks of contemporary social history, law, theology, exegesis, and literature. The author shows how Langland draws on the experiences of familial life both literally and metaphorically to further his expositions of l...