Langland, William
died 1390 - 1390
Although it cannot be proven, it is generally supposed that William Langland is the author of Piers Plowman. What little we know about the author comes primarily from this text. He had clerical training, but did not enter the priesthood. He died around 1390.
More information:- Weston, Jessie Laidlay, trans., Romance, Vision and Satire: English Alliterative Poems of the Fourteenth Century
- Goodridge, J.F., trans., Piers the Plowman
- The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, Piers Plowman
- Skeat, W.W., ed., Parallel extracts from twenty-nine manuscripts of Piers Plowman, with comments, and a proposal for the Society's three-text edition of this poem
- Skeat, W.W., ed., The Vision of William Concerning Piers Plowman
- Horrox, Rosemary, trans., The Black Death
- Schmidt, A. V. C., ed., The Vision of Piers Plowman
- Black, Joseph, et al., The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Volume 1, The Medieval Period
- Robertson, Elizabeth, ed.; Shepard, Stephen H.A. ed.; Donaldson, E. Talbot, trans., Piers Plowman
- Vaughn, Miceal F., ed., Piers Plowman: The A Version
- Schmidt, A.V.C., trans., Piers Plowman: A New Translation of the B-Text
- Donaldson, E. Talbot, ed.; Kane, George, ed., Piers Plowman: The B Version
- Economou, George, trans., William Langland's Piers Plowman: the C Version: a Verse Translation
- Tiller, Terence, trans., Piers Plowman
- Warren, Kate M., Langland's Vision of Piers the Plowman
- Tierney, Brian, The Middle Ages Volume I: Sources of Medieval History
- Dunn, Charles W., ed.; Byrnes, Edward T., ed., Middle English Literature
- McCarthy, Conor, ed., Love, Sex and Marriage in the Middle Ages: A Sourcebook
- Anderson, Roberta and Dominic Aidan Bellenger, eds., Medieval Worlds: A Sourcebook
- Pearsall, Derek ed., Piers Plowman: A New Annotated Edition of the C-Text
- Shepherd, Stephen H.A. trans, "The Parliament of the Rats and Mice"
