Writing and Rebellion
Steven Justice
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University of California Press
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
Beschreibung
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.
Kundenbewertungen
literacy, 14th century english social movements, textual culture, authority, peasants revolt, english peasantry, langland, social change, official archives, chaucer, gower, rebellion, rule, english history, medieval villagers, medieval literature, medieval england, peasant resentment, rebels, historicism medievalism, england, 14th century english history, cultural studies, public discourse, insurgent ideology, the new historicism studies in cultural poetics, written history, european history, social movement