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

ISBN-13: 9781403965165 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 276 str.

Kellie Robertson

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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