Piers Plowman

John A. Burrow was emeritus professor at the University of Bristol, and the author of many studies of medieval literature, including Langland’s Fictions.
For more information about John Burrow, visit the Author Page.

Thorlac Turville-Petre is emeritus professor at the University of Nottingham, and author of a number of books on Middle English, including Description and Narrative in Middle English Alliterative Poetry.
For more information about Thorlac Turville-Petre, visit the Author Page.

“Burrow and Turville-Petre’s new edition of the B-version archetype is certainly the most significant contribution to Piers Plowman textual studies in the last twenty years, perhaps in the nearly sixty years since George Kane’s A-text.”--Ralph Hanna, University of Oxford

“[S]hows the extraordinary potential of the Piers Plowman Electronic Archive to create a new way of engaging with the notoriously complex editorial problems posed by Piers Plowman.”--Manuscript Studies