Will Langland tells how after the crucifixion, the soul of Christ
went down to Hades to fetch Piers the Ploughman and the rest of hopeless humanity.
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Trial and Crucifixion
ByWilliam Langland
In ‘Do-bet,’ the sequel to his popular ‘Vision of Piers the Ploughman,’
Will Langland dreams about the trial of Jesus Christ before Pontius Pilate, and what followed.
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The Triumphal Entry
ByWilliam Langland
Will Langland, a contemporary of Geoffrey Chaucer, dreams he is looking
for his old friend Piers the Ploughman in Jerusalem just when Christ rides in on a donkey.
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The Martyrdom of St Edmund the King
ByElfric of Eynsham
Edmund, King of the East Angles, is given a stark choice by the Viking warrior who has ravaged his realm.
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Gifts of the Spirit
ByCynewulf
Anglo-Saxon poet Cynewulf reminds us that God’s gifts to men are many and varied,
and nobody ever gets them all.
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‘To the Heights!’
ByClay Lane
St Gregory Palamas struggled all his life to stand up for the principle that the Bible means what it says.