International Piers Plowman Society
"For scholars, teachers, and students of Piers Plowman and its tradition."
Ledbury Poetry Festival: Peter Sutton on Piers Plowman
https://www.poetry-festival.co.uk/podcast/39-peter-sutton-on-piers-plowman/
"Piers Plowman is a disturbing and humorous commentary on corruption and greed that is still topical centuries later.
Peter Sutton’s translation from the original Middle English preserves the energy, imagery and style of the original. Peter is both a brilliant academic and a superb actor. In the first part of the programme, he read selected passages, playing over 50 different parts, interspersed with some period music, in a wonderfully entertaining and enjoyable performance.
In the second half, he gave an introduction to Langland’s life, literary style and historical background, and will answer questions."
Piers Plowman: a modern verse translation by Peter Sutton
"Peter Sutton introduces and performs extracts from his modern verse translation of William Langland's 14th-century poem, Piers Plowman, a disturbing and often humorous commentary on corruption and greed."
Piers Plowman: Performance by Peter Sutton
Exhibition of the Manuscript Corpus of Piers Plowman
"A sampling of most of Angela Bennett's Piers Plowman graphs in the keynote presentation that I used to present at the International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo MI, 2013"
Piers Plowman in Middle English - lines 1-22 of William Langland's B-Text prologue
"The opening of William Langland's great 14th-century alliterative poem 'Piers Plowman' read aloud in Middle English."
English Alliterative Verse: Poetic Tradition and Literary History
Boston College Libraries
Published on Jan 10, 2018 "Eric Weiskott, English Dept. English Alliterative Verse tells the story of the medieval poetic tradition that includes Beowulf, Piers Plowman, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, stretching from the eighth century, when English poetry first appeared in manuscripts, to the sixteenth century, when alliterative poetry ceased to be composed. Eric Weiskott draws on the study of meter to challenge the traditional division of medieval English literary history into Old English and Middle English periods. The two halves of the alliterative tradition, divided by the Norman Conquest of 1066, have been studied separately since the nineteenth century; this book uses the history of metrical form and its cultural meanings to bring the two halves back together. In combining literary history and metrical description into a new kind of history he calls 'verse history', Weiskott reimagines the historical study of poetics"
Ian Sansom - Piers the Plowman Revisited - BBC RADIO 4
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b04dh39k
“Writer Ian Sansom attempts to adapt for radio William Langland's medieval dream poem.”
The Dream Vision
http://faculty.goucher.edu/eng240/dream_vision.htm
ENGLISH 240: Medieval Literature
Instructor: Arnie Sanders
Department of English, Goucher College
Trinity manuscripts project offers public rare window into the medieval world
A lecture series and accompanying digitization project at Trinity College Dublin.
University of Cambridge Digital Library
https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-GG-00004-00031/1
A sixteenth-century copy of The Vision of Piers Plowman.
The British Library
http://www.bl.uk/learning/timeline/item126920.html
Learning English Timeline: Images of manuscript versions of The Vision of Piers Plowman
Manuscripts at Trinity
https://www.tcd.ie/library/manuscripts/blog/beyondkells/ms212/
Images of manuscripts of Piers Plowman
Fair Field: Piers Plowman's dreamworld - books podcast
"In episode one of a three-part series, the medieval ‘poem of crisis’ reveals a world of inequality, corruption and spiritual malaise that is all too familiar."
