Worthy Efforts: Attitudes to Work and Workers in Pre-Industrial Europe

In Worthy Efforts Catharina Lis and Hugo Soly offer an innovative approach to the history of perceptions and representations of work in Europe throughout Classical Antiquity and the medieval and early modern periods.

About the author

Catharina Lis (1945) is Emeritus Professor of History at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and currently Guest Professor at the University of Antwerp. She has authored and co-authored many books, and has recently co-edited The Idea of Work (Ashgate, 2009).

Hugo Soly (1945) is Emeritus Professor of History at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and currently Guest Professor at the University of Antwerp. He has authored and co-authored many books and articles on the social history of pre-industial Europe.

Product details

• Authors: Catharina Lis, Hugo Soly
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.07.2012
• EAN: 9789004231436
• ISBN: 978-90-04-23143-6
• No. of pages: 678
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 244 mm x 43 mm
• Weight: 1169 g
• Series: Studies in Global Social Histo
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries