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Volume 38, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 0890-2917
  • E-ISSN: 2031-0242

Abstract

Abstract

encourages and permits us to confront trauma. Students in my medieval literature class connected Langland’s description of Christ’s Passion and crucifixion with their own memories of religious abuse. The students’ engagement was not just a modern phenomenon but deeply tied to what the poem enables us to feel and what it intends. As they recognized, Langland indicates that spiritual survival is possible, and he tells a story about the potential for recovery. My students participated in a discourse of religious trauma and recuperation that is both their own and also part of the understanding and reception of the poem.

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  • Article Type: Research Article
Keyword(s): passion and crucifixion of Christ; Piers Plowman B text; religious abuse; spiritual recovery; trauma-informed teaching; undergraduate education

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