The Work of Reform Alberto Pellai Following the establishment of American

Following the establishment of American independence

and brutality collide with love and acceptance as a diverse cast of characters struggle to reconcile mythology with reality

and that requires placing it within a metaphysical and theological realm in which the good is much more definitive than right

from pre-Emancipation to today

In the first detailed study of papal penitentiary materials on marriage

The Work of Reform Alberto Pellai Following the establishment of AmericanThe Work of Reform interweaves literary, economic, and environmental history to trace the influence that William Langland's harsh vision of enforced agrarian labor in Piers Plowman had on later medieval and early modern thinking about land and improvement in Britain and Ireland, culminating with Edmund Spenser's colonial writing. William Rhodes brings together a rich poetic archive with agrarian husbandry manuals, prose polemics, and imperial tracts