The Middle Ages at Work: Practicing Labor in Late Medieval England (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781403960078)

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 the essays strive to reformulate the very critical language we use to think about the categories of labour and work through a continually doubled engagement with modern theories of labour and medieval theories and practices of labour.

Author: K. Robertson
ISBN-10: 1403960070
ISBN-13: 9781403960078
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 10/20/2004
Pages: 267
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.56w x 0.81d