Radical Nostalgia in the Age of Piers Plowman : Economics, Apocalypticism, and Discontent
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0820442739
ISBN-13
9780820442730
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 1st, 1999
Print length
172 Pages
Weight
372 grams
Dimensions
16.00 x 23.60 x 1.50 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: classical, early & medievalEconomic history
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A study of late medieval apocalyptic literature and culture, Radical Nostalgia in the Age of ''Piers Plowman'': Economics, Apocalypticism, and Discontent examines the interdependence of economic and religious discourse and investigates the shift in social consciousness occasioned by demographic changes and the growth of the profit economy in fourteenth-century England. After exploring the growing dissonance between religious tradition and economic language, this study examines expressions of social discontent, including the actions and communications of the 1381 rebels, William Langland''s moral objections in Piers Plowman, and the complaints central to the other «plowman poems» of Langland''s imitators. This study argues that Langland and the 1381 rebels exhibit «radical nostalgia» - a longing for agrarian Christian roots that projects the traditional social structure of the past onto a renewed, if not millennial, society.
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