
The Laborer's Two Bodies
Literary and Legal Productions in Britain, 1350-1500
K. Robertson(Author)
Palgrave MacMillan (Publisher)
Published on 23. February 2006
Book
Hardback
IX, 276 pages
978-1-4039-6516-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Edition
2006 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Palgrave USA
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
IX, 276 p.
Dimensions
Height: 217 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
435 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4039-6516-5 (9781403965165)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-137-06784-5
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The Laborer's Two Bodies
Literary and Legal Productions in Britain, 1350-1500
Book
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KELLIE ROBERTSON is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.
Content
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