Writing and Rebellion
England in 1381
Steven Justice(Author)
University of California Press
1st Edition
Published on 7. October 1994
Book
Hardback
330 pages
978-0-520-08325-7 (ISBN)
Description
In this account of the English Peasants' Revolt of 1381, in which rebels burned hundreds of official archives and attacked other symbols of authority, Steven Justice demonstrates that the rebellion was not an uncontrolled, inarticulate explosion of peasant resentment, but an informed and tactical claim to literacy and rule. Focusing on six brief, enigmatic texts written by the rebels themselves, Justice places the English peasantry within a public discourse from which historians, both medieval and modern, have thus far excluded them. He recreates the imaginative world of medieval villagers - how they worked and governed themselves, how they used official communications in unofficial ways, and how they produced a disciplined insurgent ideology.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
635 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-08325-7 (9780520083257)
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Person
Steven Justice is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.