Piers Plowman and the Poetics of EnigmaIn this book, Curtis Gruenler proposes that the concept of the enigmatic, latent in a wide range of medieval thinking about literature, can help us better understand in medieval terms much of the eras most enduring literature, from the riddles of the Anglo Saxon bishop Aldhelm to the great vernacular works of Dante, Chaucer, Julian of Norwich, and, above all, Langlands Piers Plowman. Riddles, rhetoric, and theologythe three fields of meaning of