Piers plowman and the medieval discourse of desire

Abstract

Introduction: trial by desire 1. 'Painful lettings': sin, temptation and tribulation 2. Powers of knowledge and desire 3. Studying the word 4. The word heard and written 5. Seeing and suffering in nature 6. Clergie and kynde in Piers Plowman 7. Imaginatyf and the feast of Pacience 8. A poem shaped by knowing and wanting.