Labeur and Paresse: Ideological Representations of Medieval Peasant Labor
Jonathan Alexander
Images of peasants laboring in medieval Calendar cycles are here contrasted not only with images the pastimes aristocracy, but idle peasant. This makes clear ideological function within later society cycle. In particular, negative Tres Riches Heures Jean, Duc de Berry, argued to embody a shift attitude, which has historical context economic and social crises fourteenth early fifteenth centuries.
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