Gower and the Peasants' Revolt
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4872467 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ian Cornelius (0000-0003-4985-582X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 131 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 22-51 |
| Publication date | 2015-08-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Representations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0734-6018 • E-ISSN: 1533-855X |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/rep.2015.131.1.22 |
| OpenAlex | W2263366881 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
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
Art · Literature · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Sociology · History · Law · Medieval European Literature and History · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |