Images of the Medieval PeasantThis book examines conflicting images of peasants from the post-Carolingian period to the German Peasants' War. It relates the representation of peasants to debates about how society should be organized (specifically, to how human equality at Creation led to subordination), how slavery and serfdom could be assailed or defended, and how peasants themselves structured and justified their demands. |
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Contents
Marginality and Centrality of Peasants | 1 |
Peasant Labor and the Limits of Mutuality | 15 |
Equality and Freedom at Creation | 59 |
The Curse of Noah | 86 |
Representations of Contempt and Subjugation | 133 |
Peasant Bodies Male and Female | 157 |
Arbitrary | 239 |
Peasant Rebellions of the Late Middle Ages | 257 |
Harmony and Dissonance | 289 |
Bibliography | 403 |
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| Title | Images of the Medieval Peasant Figurae (Stanford, Calif.) Figurae / [Stanford university] Figurae : reading medieval culture |
| Author | Paul H. Freedman |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Stanford University Press, 1999 |
| ISBN | 0804733732, 9780804733731 |
| Length | 459 pages |
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