Medieval labor is granted a complexity and an expansiveness that readers will likely find inspiring. The essays are wide-ranging, innovative, and provocative. Robertson and Uebel have achieved something remarkable here. Praise "This collection of essays examines a favorite topic of medievalists, breathing new life into its analysis. Several of the essays strive to reformulate the very critical language we use to think about the categories of labor and work through a continually doubled engagement with modern theories of labor and medieval theories and practices of labor. To this end, the essays offer more than a strictly historical view of the complex terms, social and literary, within which labor was treated in the medieval period. It contributes to the construction of a materialist historicism while, at the same time, proposing that discussions of work need not be limited to the clash between labor and capital. This timely volume examines the commitments of historicism in the wake of New Historicism.
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