Artisans and narrative craft in late medieval England / Lisa H. Cooper.

"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 princ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cooper, Lisa H., 1971-
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Series:	Cambridge studies in medieval literature.
Subjects:	Literature, Medieval > History and criticism. Artisans in literature. Artisans > England > Historiography. Artisans > England > History > To 1500. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. England > Social life and customs > 1066-1485. England > Social conditions > 1066-1485.
Online Access:	Connect to: Table of contents only - All users (Cataloging @ Library of Congress)
Physical Description:	xiii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format:	Book

Contents:

Introduction : a is for artisan
1. Making conversations : from Ælfric's Colloquy to Caxton's Dialogues
2. Laboring legends : writing home in fable and fabliau
3. Shaping souls : artisanal allegory in the Pilgrimage poems of Guillaume de Deguileville and John Lydgate
4. Mirroring monarchs : Rex/Artifex in the Speculum Principum tradition
Epilogue : crafting nostalgias.