Plowman Definition

Plowman Sentence Examples

• Thus "the great unknown" from the Oberland is the ideal character, "who illustrates how God does his work for the world and for the church through a divinely trained and spiritually illuminated layman," just as William Langland in England about the same time drew the figure of Piers Plowman.

• The earl's memory remained green for a long time, and in the Vision of Piers Plowman his name is linked with that of Robin Hood.

• The oldest mention of Robin Hood at present known occurs in the second edition - what is called the B text - of Piers the Plowman, the date of which is about 1377.

• These " pilgrim signs " are frequently alluded to in literature - notably in the Canterbury Tales and in Piers Plowman.

• But there are references which suggest its previous award in Piers Plowman and Chaucer.