The Artisan in Elizabethan Literature


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This book looks at merchant and craft guilds in Great Britain. The author focuses oon the artisan and his family at work and at play as they appear in English literature during the period, approximately, 1557-1642. Consideration is also given to the development of the treatment of artisans, simple and direct, in the early period of Elizabeth's reign and imitative and sophisticated in the reigns of James I and Charles I.










Artisans and Narrative Craft in Late Medieval England


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The first book-length study to articulate the vital presence of artisans and craft labor in medieval English literature from c.1000-1483.










The Business Community of Seventeenth-Century England


Book Description

A comprehensive study of the business community in a pre-industrial economy.