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Background. People in the fourteen-century had difficulty to live accord with Christian principle Society's failure is attributable in part to the corruption of the church and ecclesiastics

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  1. Background • People in the fourteen-century had difficulty to live accord with Christian principle • Society's failure is attributable in part to the corruption of the church and ecclesiastics • The failure of the wealthy laity--untaught by the church to practice charity--to alleviate the sufferings of the poor.

  2. William Langland The sole author of a long religious allegory in alliterative verse

  3. William Langland • A native of the Malvern hill • Lack of preferment, never became a priest • Those “hermits” in the prologue are his life’s epitome

  4. William Langland • In “Piers Plowman” Langland uses the form of a dream vision • The theme includes the the history of Christianity and heart of an individual fourteen century Christian

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