Writing and Rebellion : England In 1381 / Steven Justice.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Justice, Steven, 1957- author.

Contributor:

• American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

• New historicism ; Volume 27.
• The New Historicism ; Volume 27

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Langland, William, 1330?-1400? Piers Plowman.
• English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.
• Peasants--Books and reading--England--History--To 1500.
• Literature and society--England--History--To 1500.
• Written communication--England--History--To 1500.
• Peasant uprisings--Great Britain--History--To 1500.
• Literacy--England--History--To 1500.
• Tyler's Insurrection, 1381.
• Great Britain--History--Richard II, 1377-1399--Historiography.
• England--Social conditions--1066-1485.
• England--Intellectual life--1066-1485.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 289 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1994]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this compelling account of the "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.-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

• Introduction
• 1. Insurgent Literacy
• 2. Wyciif in the Rising
• 3. Piers Plowman in the Rising
• 4. The Idiom of Rural Politics
• 5. Insurgency Remembered
• Epilogue
• Bibliography
• Index

Notes:

• Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

• 9780520918405 (electronic book)
• 9780520918405
• 0520918401
• 9780585249742
• 0585249741

OCLC:

1149455575