Artisans and Narrative Craft in Late Medieval England
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
ISBN-10
0521768977
ISBN-13
9780521768979
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 10th, 2011
Print length
296 Pages
Weight
582 grams
Dimensions
23.50 x 16.20 x 2.30 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: ancient, classical and medievalLiterary studies: classical, early & medieval
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This book explores the representation of artisans - masons, carpenters, blacksmiths, and more - in medieval English literature from c.1000–1483. It reveals that craft labor plays a central role in texts as varied as school-books, comic poems, spiritual literature, and works of political advice.
Lisa H. Cooper offers new insight into the relationship of material practice and literary production in the Middle Ages by exploring the representation of craft labor in England from c.1000–1483. She examines genres as diverse as the school-text, comic poem, spiritual allegory, and mirror for princes, and works by authors both well known (Chaucer, Lydgate, Caxton) and far less so. Whether they represent craft as profitable endeavor, learned skill, or degrading toil, the texts she reviews not only depict artisans as increasingly legitimate members of the body politic, but also deploy images of craft labor and its products to confront other complex issues, including the nature of authorship, the purpose of community, the structure of the household, the fate of the soul, and the scope of princely power.
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