Description
| Product ID: | 9781403960078 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Series: | The New Middle Ages |
| Title: | The Middle Ages at Work |
| Authors: | Author: K. Robertson, M. Uebel |
| Page Count: | 267 |
| Subjects: | History: theory and methods, History: theory & methods, General and world history, European history, History, Social and cultural history, Sociology: work and labour, General & world history, European history, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Social & cultural history, Sociology: work & labour, c 1000 CE to c 1500 |
| Description: | This timely volume examines the commitments of historicism in the wake of New Historicism. Several of the essays strive to reformulate the very critical language we use to think about the categories of labour and work through a continually doubled engagement with modern theories of labour and medieval theories and practices of labour. This timely volume examines the commitments of historicism in the wake of New Historicism. It contributes to the construction of a materialist historicism while, at the same time, proposing that discussions of work need not be limited to the clash between labor and capital. To this end, the essays offer more than a strictly historical view of the complex terms, social and literary, within which labor was treated in the medieval period. Several of the essays strive to reformulate the very critical language we use to think about the categories of labor and work through a continually doubled engagement with modern theories of labor and medieval theories and practices of labor. |
| Imprint Name: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Publisher Name: | Palgrave USA |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2004-10-20 |
