Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; 1 The Problem of Women's Work Identities in Post Black Death England; 2 Work Ethics in the Fourteenth Century; 3 TĚ€he Lord Geoffrey had me made': Lordship and Labour in the Luttrell Psalter; 4 Framing Labour: The Archaeology of York's Medieval Guildhalls; 5 The Problem of Labour in the Context of English Government, c. 1350-1450; 6 The Voice of Labour in Fourteenth-Century English Literature; 7 Piers Plowman and the Problem of Labour; 8 Household, Work and the Problem of Mobile Labour: The Regulation of Labour in Medieval English Towns
Summary
Labour was one of the central issues in public and political discourse during the fourteenth century. The natural disasters and profound social changes of the period created not merely a 'problem' of labour, but also new ways of discussing and (supposedly) solving that problem
Notes
Papers originally presented at the York Interdisciplinary Conference on the Fourteenth Century, held at the University of York, in July 1998."
