K. Robertson

The Laborer's Two Bodies (eBook, PDF)

Literary and Legal Productions in Britain, 1350-1500

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137067845
• Artikelnr.: 46925224

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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