Robertson The Laborer's Two Bodies

Literary and Legal Productions in Britain, 1350-1500
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-137-06784-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 276 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: The New Middle Ages

This is an exploration the intellectual consequences of one of the most fundamental shifts in late medieval English society: the first national labour regulation in the wake of the 1348 plague. Bridging the medieval and early modern periods, this book analyzes a wide range of texts and images produced in this initial period of labour regulation.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Robertson, K.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction The Laborer's Two Bodies Chaucer and the Enforcement of the Labor Statutes The Ideology of Common Profit: Rebels, Heretics, Merchants Incorporeal Things: Fifteenth-Century Women's Work 'Let God Work!': Drama and Rebellion in Fifteenth-Century East Anglia Vagrant Times Epilogue: The Labors of Medievalism

Über Autor(innen)

KELLIE ROBERTSON is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.