{"product_id":"radical-nostalgia-in-the-age-guy-r-mermier-9780820442730","title":"Radical Nostalgia in the Age of «Piers Plowman»: Economics, Apocalypticism, and Discontent","description":"A study of late medieval apocalyptic literature and culture, \u003ci\u003eRadical Nostalgia in the Age of 'Piers Plowman': Economics, Apocalypticism, and Discontent\u003c\/i\u003e examines the interdependence of economic and religious discourse and investigates the shift in social consciousness occasioned by demographic changes and the growth of the profit economy in fourteenth-century England. After exploring the growing dissonance between religious tradition and economic language, this study examines expressions of social discontent, including the actions and communications of the 1381 rebels, William Langland's moral objections in \u003ci\u003ePiers Plowman\u003c\/i\u003e, and the complaints central to the other  plowman poems  of Langland's imitators. This study argues that Langland and the 1381 rebels exhibit  radical nostalgia  - a longing for agrarian Christian roots that projects the traditional social structure of the past onto a renewed, if not millennial, society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Guy R. Mermier,Justine Rydzeski\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820442739\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820442730\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 172\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Guy R. Mermier","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065187348735,"sku":"9780820442730","price":77.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ea3e3b7c-b7a1-4bc7-a390-5a4d20f8a174.jpg?v=1768673569","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/radical-nostalgia-in-the-age-guy-r-mermier-9780820442730","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}