Artisans and Narrative Craft in Late-Medieval England

by Lisa H. Cooper

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521768977
• ISBN13: 9780521768979
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"