Laborer's Two Bodies - Literary and Legal Productions in Britain, 1350-1500

Informationen zum Autor KELLIE ROBERTSON is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. 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

Product details

• Authors: K Robertson, K. Robertson, Kellie Robertson
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.02.2006
• EAN: 9781403965165
• ISBN: 978-1-4039-6516-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: The New Middle Ages; The New Middle Ages
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Labour, economic and industrial sociology; B, European Politics, Political Science, Politics & government, Political science & theory, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Great Britain—Politics and government, British Politics, Literary studies: ancient, classical & medieval, Classical literature, Classical and Antique Literature, Sociology of Work, Industrial sociology, Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Medieval Literature, Literature, Medieval, History of Medieval Europe, Europe—History—476-1492, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Britain;early modern period;history;Middle Ages;society;work