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Older research on the premodern world limited its focus on the Church, the court, and, more recently, on urban space. The present volume invites readers to consider the meaning of rural space, both in light of ecocritical readings and social-historical approaches. While previous scholars examined the figure of the peasant in the premodern world, the current volume combines a large number of specialized studies that investigate how the natural environment and the appearance of members of the rural population interacted with the world of the court and of the city. The experience in rural space was important already for writers and artists in the premodern era, as the large variety of scholarly approaches indicates. The present volume signals how much the surprisingly close interaction between members of the aristocratic and of the peasant class determined many literary and art-historical works. In a surprisingly large number of cases we can even discover elements of utopia hidden in rural space. We also observe how much the rural world was a significant element already in early-medieval mentality. Moreover, as many authors point out, the impact of natural forces on premodern society was tremendous, if not catastrophic.

Literature, Medieval --- Peasants in literature. --- Rural conditions in literature. --- European literature --- Ecocriticism. --- Ecological literary criticism --- Environmental literary criticism --- Criticism --- Peasantry in literature --- History and criticism. --- Early Modern Age. --- Medieval Culture. --- Middle Ages. --- Rural Space.

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Iconography --- anno 1800-1999 --- Belgium --- Belgique --- België --- Boeren in de kunst --- Boeren in de literatuur --- Geschiedenis van de nieuwste tijden --- Histoire contemporaine --- Paysans dans l'art --- Paysans dans la litterature --- Peasants in art --- Peasants in literature --- Vlaanderen --- Arts, Flemish --- Peasants in art. --- Country life in art. --- 63 <09> --- Academic collection --- Z316.324.2 --- Z316.343.64 --- Z++93/08 --- 316.343.64 --- 63-057 --- Country life in art --- -Arts, Flemish --- -Flemish arts --- Peasantry in art --- History of agriculture --- 63 <09> History of agriculture --- -History of agriculture --- België. --- Vlaanderen. --- -Peasantry in art --- Flemish arts --- Peasantry --- 920 --- landelijke geschiedenis --- geschiedenis België --- histoire Belgique --- Arts, Flemish - 19th century. --- Arts, Flemish - 20th century.

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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.--

English literature --- Peasantry --- Literature and society --- Written communication --- Peasant uprisings --- Tyler's Insurrection, 1381. --- Literacy --- Peasants --- Tyler's Insurrection, 1381 --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature --- Illiteracy --- Education --- General education --- Peasants' uprisings --- Uprisings, Peasant --- Insurgency --- Revolutions --- Written discourse --- Written language --- Communication --- Discourse analysis --- Language and languages --- Visual communication --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Agricultural laborers --- Rural population --- Marks (Medieval land tenure) --- Villeinage --- Peasants' Revolt, 1381 --- Wat Tyler's Insurrection, 1381 --- History and criticism. --- Books and reading --- History. --- History and criticism --- History --- Social aspects --- Langland, William, --- Great Britain --- England --- Historiography. --- Intellectual life --- Social conditions --- 14th century english history. --- 14th century english social movements. --- authority. --- chaucer. --- cultural studies. --- england. --- english history. --- english peasantry. --- european history. --- gower. --- historicism medievalism. --- insurgent ideology. --- langland. --- literacy. --- medieval england. --- medieval literature. --- medieval villagers. --- official archives. --- peasant resentment. --- peasants revolt. --- public discourse. --- rebellion. --- rebels. --- rule. --- social change. --- social movement. --- textual culture. --- the new historicism studies in cultural poetics. --- written history. --- ENGLISH LITERATURE --- GREAT BRITAIN --- ENGLAND --- LANGLAND (WILLIAM), 1330?-1400? --- LITERATURE AND SOCIETY --- PEASANTS IN LITERATURE --- TYLER'S INSURRECTION IN LITERATURE --- MIDDLE ENGLISH, 1100-1500 --- HISTORY --- RICHARD II, 1377-1399 --- INTELLECTUAL LIFE --- MEDIEVAL PERIOD, 1066-1485 --- PIERS THE PLOWMAN