Alastair Bennett is Lecturer in Medieval Literature in the Department of English at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has published on Langland, Chaucer, and late medieval religious and devotional culture. He is currently editing the Pardoner's Prologue and Tale for the Cambridge Complete Works of Chaucer, and the A-text of Piers Plowman from Lincoln's Inn MS 150 for the Piers Plowman Electronic Archive. He edits the Yearbook of Langland Studies with Katharine Breen and Eric Weiskott.

• Introduction: Preaching and Narrative in Piers Plowman


• 1: Preaching on the Coronation: The Prologue and the Sermon of Conscience


• 2: Preaching on the Half-Acre: Fear, Hope, and Narrative in the Second Vision


• 3: Preachers and Minstrels: Study's Complaint and the Feast of Conscience


• 4: Preaching on the Lifetime: Sermons and the "Self-Constant" Subject in Piers Plowman


• 5: Histories of the Self, the World, and the Sermon: Anima and the Tree of Charity


• Coda: Atonement and Emplotment at the Harrowing of Hell

The book describes the process by which the narratives of Piers Plowman are composed and how they mediate and reconfigure their listeners' experiences.