keyword: Labour
Labour
- Late-Medieval Prison Writing in Context: The Values of Confinement
Issue: Leeds Medieval Studies, 2 (2022)
This article is concerned with writing in and about confinement in the Middle Ages. It considers different types of late-medieval cell — anchoritic, monastic, and carceral — and explores some of their shared contexts, characteristics, and values. Through a close analysis of literature concerned with confinement, this article suggests that there is a difference in the value of cellular space and living in early and late medieval texts. It suggests several reasons for this change and focuses, in particular, upon work and labour.