Steven Justice – Writing and Rebellion: England in 1381
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Steven Justice – Writing and Rebellion: England in 1381
The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics, Number 27 [University of California Press 1996] buy new or used at abebooks.co.uk | buy new at amazon.co.uk 
If you use either of these links to purchase this item breviary stuff will receive 5% commission It is part of the insult offered to intelligence by a class society that this history of ordinary thought is ever found surprising. Raymond Williams, The Country and the City 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. Contents
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