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Next to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, William Langland's Piers Plowman is perhaps the best-known literary picture of fourteenth-century England. Langland's work, more socially concerned and critical than Chaucer's, reflected an age of religious controversy, social upheaval, and political unrest. The World of Piers Plowman puts the reader in touch with the sources that helped shape Langland's somber vision. The representative documents included in this book, often cited in connection with the poem yet difficult to come by, disclose the background of Piers Plowman in social and economic history as well as folklore, art, theology, homilies, religious tractates, and chronicles.The seven sections into which the readings are divided illustrate ideas concerning (1) the heavens, the universal Church, England, and London; (2) material and spiritual abuses; (3) the most influential literary genres of the period; (4) exempla, moral tales from hagiography, sermon literature, and tracts on moral theology; (5) types of practical instruction available to the devout layperson; (6) the multiple meanings in many literary works; and (7) the moment of death, the judgments on the soul, and the torments and rewards of the afterlife.

English literature --- Manners and customs in literature --- Middle English literature --- Langland, William, --- England --- Social life and customs --- Manners and customs in literature.

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Scots language --- Manners and customs. --- Scots language. --- Gaelic (Schots) --- Scotland --- Scotland. --- Social life and customs

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Art objects --- Art objects. --- Decorative arts --- Decorative arts. --- Manners and customs. --- India --- India. --- Social life and customs

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Coffeehouses --- Coffeehouses. --- Intellectual life. --- Manners and customs. --- Hawelka (Café : Vienna, Austria). --- Hawelka (Café : Vienna, Austria). --- Austria --- Vienna (Austria) --- Vienna (Austria) --- Intellectual life --- Social life and customs

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Following the publication of the book by E. R. Leach, ed., Aspects of Caste in South India, Ceylon and North-West Pakistan (1960), much additional information was gathered on caste hierarchies in South Asia, and two major attempts were made to identify the underlying unity of this material - a structuralist one by Louis Dumont and a ethnosocialogical one by McKim Marriott et al. This quest for unity seemed attractive, yet at the same time, as the contributions to the present volume indicate, premature. The four papers collected here and published in 1982 are all concerned with caste ideology and caste interaction in different locales of South Asia.

Caste --- India --- Sri Lanka --- Social life and customs --- Caste. --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology --- India - Social life and customs --- Sri Lanka - Social life and customs --- Social life and customs. --- Manners and customs