William Langland (/ˈlæŋlənd/; bahasa Latin: Willielmus de Langland; ca 1332 – c. 1386) diyakini adalah pengarang karya berbahasa Inggris Abad Pertengahan yang umum disebut sebagai Piers Plowman yang berisi tema-tema agama. Syair tersebut menerjemahkan bahasa dan konsep kloister ke dalam simbol dan gambar yang dapat dimengerti kaum awam.
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John M. Bowers, "Piers Plowman and the Police: notes towards a history of the Wycliffite Langland," Yearbook of Langland Studies 6 (1992), pp. 1–50.
Pamela Godden, "Langland and the Ideology of Dissent," Proceedings of the British Academy 66 (1980), pp. 179–205.
Malcolm Gradon, The Making of Piers Plowman (London: Longman, 1990). ISBN0-582-01685-1
Edith Rickert, "John But, Messenger and Maker," Modern Philology 11 (1903), pp. 107–17.
Wendy Scase, Piers Plowman and the New Anticlericalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989). ISBN0-521-36017-X.
International Piers Plowman Society Website of international scholarly organization for the study of Piers Plowman and other alliterative poems; includes a searchable database of all scholarship on these poems since 1986.
Piers Plowman Electronic Archive A multi-level, hypertextually linked electronic archive of the textual tradition of all three versions of the fourteenth-century allegorical dream vision Piers Plowman.
