The Worst of Adventures: the Knight Yvain and the silk weavers (late twelfth century)
The term « worker » appears for the first time in France in the middle of the xiith century to designate the person, man or woman, who worked manually for a salary. The chivalric novel written by Chrétien de Troyes between 1176 and 1181, Yvain, le chevalier au lion, offers one of the earliest descri...
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| Publicado en: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/cliowgh, |
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Clio
2017
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| Acceso en liña: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Résumé: | The term « worker » appears for the first time in France in the middle of the xiith century to designate the person, man or woman, who worked manually for a salary. The chivalric novel written by Chrétien de Troyes between 1176 and 1181, Yvain, le chevalier au lion, offers one of the earliest descriptions of salaried workers of the Middle Ages. The valiant knight’s brutal encounter with the realities of a female workshop constitutes among the most powerful pages of medieval literature. His descriptions testify to a new reality where work, money and poverty appeared at the heart of the arthurian legend. |
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