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The first of its kind in Piers Plowman studies, this edition aims to establish the archetypal text of the B-version of the poem, the ancestor of all extant manuscripts. The editors claim that this can be determined with certainty by examining the relationship between the best copies of the alpha and beta families of the B-version stemma.