As he “slombered in a slepyng,” the poet of Piers Plowman quickly sees the vision representing the dilemma of the medieval mind: two castles standing and all the world of men between them… So, to which kingdom will each man belong? As I bihelde in-to þe est • an hiegh to the sonne, / I seigh aContinue reading “The Medieval Dilemma”
living (here) to die (well)
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