UID:
almafu_9961386433402883
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 153 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9786610545971
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1-84615-138-4
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1-280-54597-6
Content:
At the very moment that the image of the honest labourer seemed to reach its apogee in the Luttrell Psalter or, a few decades later, in 'Piers Plowman', the dominant culture of the landed interests was increasingly suspicious of what it described as the idleness, greed and arrogance of the lower orders. Labour was one of the central issues during the fourteenth century: the natural disasters and profound social changes of the period created not merely a 'problem' of labour, but also new ways of discussing and (supposedly) solving that problem. These studies engage with the contrasting and often competing discourses which emerged, ranging from the critical social awareness of some of the early fourteenth-century protest literature to the repressive authoritarianism of the new national employment laws that were enforced in the wake of the Black Death, and were expressed in counter-cultures of resistance and dissent.
Note:
Papers originally presented at the York Interdisciplinary Conference on the Fourteenth Century, held at the University of York, in July 1998."
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Frontmatter --
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CONTENTS --
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LIST OF FIGURES --
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PREFACE --
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1 The Problem of Women's Work Identities in Post Black Death England --
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2 Work Ethics in the Fourteenth Century --
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3 `The Lord Geoffrey had me made': Lordship and Labour in the Luttrell Psalter --
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4 Framing Labour: The Archaeology of York's Medieval Guildhalls --
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5 The Problem of Labour in the Context of English Government, c. 1350±1450 --
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6 The Voice of Labour in Fourteenth-Century English Literature --
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7 Piers Plowman and the Problem of Labour --
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8 Household, Work and the Problem of Mobile Labour: The Regulation of Labour in Medieval English Towns
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-903153-04-2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-585-49678-1
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781846151385
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