Writing and Rebellion

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.

Writing and Rebellion features in the following genres: European history: medieval period, middle ages, Literary theory, Semiotics / semiology, European history

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Writing and Rebellion was written by Steven Justice and published by University of California Press

Writing and Rebellion has 289 pages

Yes it is part of The New Historicism : Studies in Cultural Poetics series

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