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Overview
Shaped by the increasing commercialization of economic relations, the social agitation of the agricultural and artisan classes, and the growing formalization of status consciousness, the cultural landscape of late medieval England was fertile territory for the representation of work. In The Voice of the Hammer, Nicola Masciandaro examines the Middle English lexicon, accounts of the history of work, and the poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer to reveal that late medieval society understood work as a distinct and problematical field of experience, and that concerns over the relation of work to life were as pressing then as now.
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Details
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
11/15/2006
ISBN-10:
0268034982
ISBN-13:
9780268034986
Pages:
224
Publisher:
University of Notre Dame Press
