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In this essay, I detail new evidence for the clerical career of William Rokele, who has been suggested as the author of Piers Plowman. By examining manorial court rolls from Redgrave, where Rokele was the priest, I offer new, more specific dates for his career. I conclude by putting this biography of Rokele, the rural priest, into dialogue with evidence of Piers Plowman as a London poem, arguing that the dates of both Rokele’s life and the composition of Piers Plowman leave open the possibility that Rokele was the author.
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