14th century english history
14th century english social movements
A01=Steven Justice
Author_Steven Justice
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cultural studies
england
english history
english peasantry
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european history
gower
historicism medievalism
insurgent ideology
langland
literacy
medieval england
medieval literature
medieval villagers
official archives
peasant resentment
peasants revolt
public discourse
rebellion
rebels
rule
social change
social movement
textual culture
the new historicism studies in cultural poetics
written history
Product details
- ISBN 9780520206977
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 1996
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 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.
Steven Justice is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.
