Download or read book Worthy Efforts: Attitudes to Work and Workers in Pre-Industrial Europe written by Catharina Lis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Worthy Efforts Catharina Lis and Hugo Soly offer an innovative approach to the history of perceptions and representations of work in Europe throughout Classical Antiquity and the medieval and early modern periods.