This timely volume examines the commitments of historicism in the wake of New Historicism. It contributes to the construction of a materialist historicism while, at the same time, proposing that discussions of work need not be limited to the clash between labour and capital. To this end, the essays offer more than a strictly historical view of the complex terms, social and literary, within which labour was treated in the medieval period. Several of the essays strive to reformulate the very critical language we use to think about the categories of labour and work through a continually doubled...
This timely volume examines the commitments of historicism in the wake of New Historicism. It contributes to the construction of a materialist histori...
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.
This is an exploration the intellectual consequences of one of the most fundamental shifts in late medieval English society: the first national labour...
This timely volume examines the commitments of historicism in the wake of New Historicism. Several of the essays strive to reformulate the very critical language we use to think about the categories of labour and work through a continually doubled engagement with modern theories of labour and medieval theories and practices of labour.
This timely volume examines the commitments of historicism in the wake of New Historicism. Several of the essays strive to reformulate the very critic...
