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Images of the medieval peasant

"This 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."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 1999
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xvi, 459 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
9780804733724, 9780804733731, 0804733724, 0804733732
39627548
Introduction: Marginality and Centrality of Peasants
Ch. 1. Peasant Labor and the Limits of Mutuality
Ch. 2. The Breakdown of Mutuality: Laments over the Mistreatment of Peasants
Ch. 3. Equality and Freedom at Creation
Ch. 4. The Curse of Noah
Ch. 5. National Myths and the Origins of Serfdom
Ch. 6. Representations of Contempt and Subjugation
Ch. 7. Peasant Bodies, Male and Female
Ch. 8. Peasant Warriors and Peasant Liberties
Ch. 9. Pious and Exemplary Peasants
Ch. 10. The Problem of Servitude: Arbitrary Mistreatment, Symbolic Degradation
Ch. 11. Peasant Rebellions of the Late Middle Ages
Conclusion: Harmony and Dissonance