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

by K. Robertson

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403965165
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	02/23/2006
Series:	The New Middle Ages
Edition description:	2006
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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