Conscience and the Composition of Piers Plowman

Conscience and the Composition of Piers Plowman provides a detailed account of one of the central personified figures in William Langland''s Piers Plowman. Previous critical accounts of Conscience either focus on discussions of the faculty conscience in scholastic discourse, or eschew personification allegory as a useful category in order to argue for the figure''s development or education as a ch...