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

基本信息出版社:Palgrave MacMillan丛书名:New Middle Ages精装:276页正文语种:英语ISBN:1403965161条形码:9781403965165商品尺寸:21.7 x 15.3 x 2.1 cm商品重量:435 gASIN:1403965161商品描述"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. Bridging the medieval and early modern periods, this book analyzes a wide range of texts and images produced in this initial period of labor regulation (1349 to 1500), including texts by Chaucer, Gower, Langland, the Paston Family, and Barclay. "The Laborer's Two Bodies" demonstrates that the category of labor became increasingly problematic for writers who struggled to understand the meaning of work in a world where labor was simultaneously understood as punishment, virtue, and reward.