Writing & Rebellion - England in 1381 (Paper)

1. Auflage 1996
ISBN: 978-0-520-20697-7
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 27, 330 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 572 g

Reihe: The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics

In this compelling account of the "peasants' revolt" of 1381, in which rebels burned hundreds of official archives and attacked other symbols of authority, Steven Justice demonstrates that the rebellion was not an uncontrolled, inarticulate explosion of peasant resentment but an informed and tactical claim to literacy and rule.

Focusing on six brief, enigmatic texts written by the rebels themselves, Justice places the English peasantry within a public discourse from which historians, both medieval and modern, have thus far excluded them. He recreates the imaginative world of medieval villagers—how they worked and governed themselves, how they used official communications in unofficial ways, and how they produced a disciplined insurgent ideology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Justice, Steven

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Steven Justice is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.