Problem of Labour in Fourteenth-Century England

The late W. MARK ORMROD was Professor Emeritus of History at the University of York; he published extensively on later medieval history. Christopher Dyer is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Leicester. He has written, edited, co-authored and co-edited many books, including William Dugdale, Historian, 1605-1686: His Life, his Writings and His County (Boydell, 2009). The late Derek Pearsall was Emeritus Gurney Professor of Middle English Literature at Harvard University; he wrote extensively on Chaucer, Gower, Langland and Lydgate, including biographies of Chaucer and Lydgate, an edition of the C-text of Langland's Piers Plowman. SARAH REES JONES is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at the University of York, UK.

• The Problem of Women's Work Identities in Post Black Death England - Cordelia BeattieWork Ethics in the Fourteenth Century - Christopher Dyer'The Lord Geoffrey had me made': Lordship and Labour in the Luttrell Psalter (with P.J.P. Goldberg) - Richard K Emmerson'The Lord Geoffrey had me made': Lordship and Labour in the Luttrell Psalter (with Richard K. Emmerson) - P J P GoldbergFraming Labour: The Archaeology of York's Medieval Guildhalls - Kate GilesThe Problem of Labour in the Context of English Government, c.1350-1450 - Christopher Given-WilsonThe Voice of Labour in Fourteenth-Century English Literature - Stephen KnightPiers Plowman and the Problem of Labour - Derek PearsallHousehold, Work and the Problem of Mobile Labour: The Regulation of Labour in Medieval English Towns - Sarah Rees Jones

Interesting and stimulating collection. effectively illustrated the worth of subjecting traditional historiographical themes to further scrutiny and to new methodological approaches.