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Piers Plowman (written c. 1370–86; possibly c. 1377) or Visio Willelmi de Petro Ploughman (William's Vision of Piers Plowman) is a Middle English allegorical

fifteenth-century note in the Dublin manuscript of Piers Plowman says that Langland was the son of Stacy de Rokayle. Langland is believed to have been born in Cleobury

typically Piers, from William Langland's poem Piers Plowman. (A much larger number of texts, with less obvious connection to Piers Plowman, may also be

been attributed to "Robert Langland" (i.e., William Langland) because of its inclusion in the 1561 edition of Piers Plowman, although this edition dropped

of a parliament of rats and mice was retold in William Langland's allegorical poem Piers Plowman. The episode is said to refer to the Parliament of 1376

Scotorum 1365 Mpu Prapanca – Nagarakretagama c. 1367 William Langland (presumed author) – Piers Plowman (earliest likely date) 1368–71 Geoffrey Chaucer – The

Orsten, E. Ambiguities in Langland's Rat Parliament. Mediaeval Studies 23, 1961. Dodd, G. A parliament full of rats? Piers Plowman and the Good Parliament

influence on literature may also have extended to William Langland's Lady Mede in Piers Plowman. Langland describes Lady Meed wearing rings of purest "perreize"

"messenger", from courir, "to run". It was first recorded in 1377 in Langland's Piers Plowman "Fissch to lyue in þe flode..Þe corlue by kynde of þe eyre". In

can be traced back to the fourteenth century and William Langland's narrative poem, Piers Plowman: Thou mightest beter meten the myst on Malverne hulles