Steven Justice 
Writing and Rebellion [EPUB ebook] 
England in 1381

Soporte

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.
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 p

€52.99
Métodos de pago

Sobre el autor

Steven Justice is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.

¡Compre este libro electrónico y obtenga 1 más GRATIS!
Idioma Inglés ● Formato EPUB ● Páginas 330 ● ISBN 9780520918405 ● Tamaño de archivo 4.8 MB ● Editorial University of California Press ● Publicado 2023 ● Edición 1 ● Descargable 24 meses ● Divisa EUR ● ID 8916597 ● Protección de copia Adobe DRM
Requiere lector de ebook con capacidad DRM

Más ebooks del mismo autor / Editor

67.289 Ebooks en esta categoría