The voice of the hammer: Work in medieval English literature (John Gower, Geoffrey Chaucer)
- Author/Editor
- Masciandaro, Nicola
- Title
- The voice of the hammer: Work in medieval English literature (John Gower, Geoffrey Chaucer)
- Published
- Masciandaro, Nicola. "The voice of the hammer: Work in medieval English literature (John Gower, Geoffrey Chaucer)." PhD thesis, Yale University, 2002.
- Review
- "This dissertation investigates Middle English representations of work. Most previous scholarship has approached medieval work through autonomous disciplinary channels. I examine several kinds of evidence for late medieval attitudes toward work in the context of both socioeconomic conditions and intellectual traditions. . . . Chapter 2 examines three accounts of the history of work—the history of masonry contained in the Cooke MS (British Museum, Add. MS. 23198), John Gower's history of work in Book 4 of the Confessio Amantis, and Chaucer's Former Age—in order to show how the history of work was a site of ideological contest." [JGN 23.2]
- Date
- 2002
- Gower Subjects
- Confessio Amantis