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Gower and the Peasants' Revolt
- Author(s):
- Ian Cornelius (see profile)
- Date:
- 2015
- Subject(s):
- Ethics, Latin literature, Social history
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Peasants' Revolt, Gower, 1381, Aeneid, Medieval studies, Reception studies
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6478T
- Abstract:
- The Rising of 1381, or Peasants’ Revolt, was the largest popular insurrection in premodern England. Soon afterwards, the London poet John Gower commemorated these events in a Latin poem, in which the rebellion is neutralized by an act of penitential prayer. This article examines the moral and political claims implied in that denouement, situating it within three contrastive fields: the poet’s moral project, his Virgilian intertext, and the practices of moral community employed by the rebels of 1381.
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- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article Show details
- Pub. DOI:
- 10.1525/rep.2015.131.1.22
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- Pub. Date:
- 2015-7-20
- Journal:
- Representations
- Volume:
- 131
- Issue:
- 1
- Page Range:
- 22 - 51
- ISSN:
- 0734-6018,1533-855X
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 6 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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