Writing and Rebellion : England In 1381 /

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In this compelling account of the "peasants' revolt" of 1381, in which rebels burned hundreds of official archives and attacked other symbols of authority, Steven Justice demonstrates that the rebellion was not an uncontrolled, inarticulate explosion of peasant resentment but an infor...

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Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Justice, Steven
Körperschaft:
American Council of Learned Societies
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1994]
Ausgabe:
First edition.
Zusammenfassung:
In this compelling account of the "peasants' revolt" of 1381, in which rebels burned hundreds of official archives and attacked other symbols of authority, Steven Justice demonstrates that the rebellion was not an uncontrolled, inarticulate explosion of peasant resentment but an informed and tactical claim to literacy and rule. Focusing on six brief, enigmatic texts written by the rebels themselves, Justice places the English peasantry within a public discourse from which historians, both medieval and modern, have thus far excluded them. He recreates the imaginative world of medieval villagers--how they worked and governed themselves, how they used official communications in unofficial ways, and how they produced a disciplined insurgent ideology.--
Umfang:
1 online resource (xiv, 289 pages)
Anmerkungen:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Anmerkungen:
English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780520918405 (electronic book)
9780520918405
0520918401
9780585249742
0585249741
Schlagworte:
Langland, William, > 1330?-1400? > Piers Plowman.
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