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Plowman was attracted into organising for pacifism in the later 1930s by Hugh Richard Lawrie Sheppard. He was the first General Secretary of the Peace Pledge Union 1937–1938. [2] Murry, to whom Plowman was now close, became a pacifist after a diversion into communism.
The sole surviving manuscript of "The Plowman's Tale" (written in a 16th-century hand) was inserted at the end of The Canterbury Tales in a copy of Thomas Godfrey/Godfray's 1532 printed edition of Chaucer's Works (STC 5068), edited by William Thynne. (This is in PR 1850 1532 cop. 1 at the University of Texas Harry Ransom Center.)
Clifford Henry Fitzherbert Plowman [1] CMG OBE BA JP (23 July 1889 – 25 October 1948) was a British diplomat and Colonial Service administrator. He was the only child of the Rev'd Herbert William Thomas Plowman MA and Louisa Plowman (née Goodwin). He was educated at King's Ely and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Der Ackermann aus Böhmen (German for "The Ploughman from Bohemia"), also known as Der Ackermann und der Tod ("The Ploughman and Death"), is a work of prose in Early New High German by Johannes von Tepl, written around 1401. [1]
In 1662, Thomas Fuller attributed the Prayer to "Robert Langland," then supposed by Robert Crowley and Bale to be the author of Piers Plowman, a poem whose author is now usually identified as William Langland). Fuller was familiar with Piers Plowman and with several separate editions of the Prayer, which he believed were printed by Tyndale and ...
"Langland's Dreamer": from an illuminated initial in a Piers Plowman manuscript held at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. William Langland (/ ˈ l æ ŋ l ə n d /; Latin: Willielmus de Langland; c. 1330 – c. 1386) is the presumed author of a work of Middle English alliterative verse generally known as Piers Plowman, an allegory with a complex variety of religious themes.
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Download as PDF; Printable version ... Appearance. move to sidebar hide. Mark Plowman may refer to : Max Plowman, also known ... Text is available under the ...