The laborer's two bodies: literary and legal productions in Britain, 1350-1500

The laborer’s two bodies: literary and legal productions in Britain, 1350-1500

The laborer’s two bodies: literary and legal productions in Britain, 1350-1500

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Edition Details

  • Creator or Attribution (Responsibility): Kellie Robertson
  • Biografical Information: Kellie Robertson currently serves as Director of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh. She has published articles on Geoffrey of Monmouth, Chaucer, Milton, and postcolonial theory. She is editor (along with Michael Uebel) of a collection of essays, The Middle Ages at Work: Practicing Labor in Late Medieval England (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).
  • Language: English
  • Jurisdiction(s): England
  • Publication Information: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
  • Publication Type (Medium): History
  • Material: Internet resource
  • Type: Book, Internet Resource
  • Series title: New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
  • Permalink: https://books.lawi.org.uk/the-laborer-s-two-bodies-literary-and-legal-productions-in-britain-1350-1500/ (Stable identifier)

Short Description

IX, 276 pages : ILlustrations ; 22 cm.

Purpose and Intended Audience

Useful for students learning an area of law, The laborer’s two bodies: literary and legal productions in Britain, 1350-1500 is also useful for lawyers seeking to apply the law to issues arising in practice.

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Bibliographic information

  • Responsable Person: Kellie Robertson.
  • Publication Date: 2006
  • Country/State: England
  • Number of Editions: 6 editions
  • First edition Date: 2006
  • Last edition Date: 2006
  • Languages: British English
  • Library of Congress Code: KD3040
  • Dewey Code: 344.410109024
  • ISBN: 1403965161 9781403965165
  • OCLC: 61879002

Main Contents

Keeping Paradise
The laborer’s two bodies
Chaucer and the enforcement of the labor statues
The ideology of common profit : rebels, heretics, merchants
Corporeal style : representing the gentry household
“Let God work!” : drama and rebellion in fifteenth-century East Anglia
Vagrant times.

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