Work and Festa Ferianda in Medieval England
Barbara Harvey
Much work that is absolutely essential for the continuance and progress of an ordered society has a severely limited attraction those who perform it. How, nevertheless, men women were persuaded to regularly or at all in Middle Ages provided one central themes study period, this what we institutions slavery, serfdom villeinage—all three ways means persuading reluctant workers work. But these also escape from toil, it with these, custom abstaining many habitual forms on church festivals, essay concerned.
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History