Title Background

Persons in the Creation of Social Bonds: Agency and Civil Death in <i>Piers Plowman</i>.

Persons in the Creation of Social Bonds: Agency and Civil Death in Piers Plowman.

Revised and republished version of “Civil Death and the Maiden: Agency and the Conditions of Contract in Piers Plowman,” Speculum 70 (1995): 760– 92. See “Annual Bibliography 1995,” YLS 10 (1996): 223–24.

Rev. by:

  • Sharon E. Knopp, Medium Ævum 73.2 (2004): 335-36;
  • Seth Lerer, Modern Philology 102 (2004): 244-48;
  • Maura Nolan, YLS 18 (2004): 165-72;
  • John A. Quitslund, Renaissance Quarterly 57 (2004): 1511-13;
  • William Askins, Speculum, 81 (2006), 513-15;
  • Alfred David, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 26 (2004), 391-94.