The Middle Ages at Work: Practicing Labor in Late Medieval England

by Michael Uebel

Book Overview

This timely volume examines the commitments of historicism in the wake of New Historicism. It contributes to the construction of a materialist historicism while, at the same time, proposing that discussions of work need not be limited to the clash between labour and capital. To this end, the essays offer more than a strictly historical view of the complex terms, social and literary, within which labour was treated in the medieval period. Several of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403960070
• ISBN13: 9781403960078
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.5"