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Laborer's two bodies : literary and legal productions in Britain, 1350-1500 / Kellie Robertson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Robertson, Kellie, 1968-
- Series:
- New Middle Ages
- The new Middle Ages
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Labor laws and legislation--Great Britain--History.
- Labor laws and legislation.
- Great Britain.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 276 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
- Summary:
- "The Laborer's Two Bodies" explores the intellectual, cultural, and political consequences of one of the most fundamental shifts in late medieval English society: the first national labor regulation in the wake of the 1348 plague.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Keeping Paradise 1
- 1 The Laborer's Two Bodies 13
- 2 Chaucer and the Enforcement of the Labor Statutes 51
- 3 The Ideology of Common Profit: Rebels, Heretics, Merchants 78
- 4 Corporeal Style: Representing the Gentry Household 119
- 5 "Let God Work!": Drama and Rebellion in Fifteenth-Century East Anglia 153
- Epilogue: Vagrant Times 183.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-270) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1403965161
- OCLC:
- 61879002
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