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The Laborer's Two Bodies - Literary and Legal Productions in Britain, 1350-1500 (Hardcover, 2006 ed.)
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The Laborer's Two Bodies - Literary and Legal Productions in Britain, 1350-1500 (Hardcover, 2006 ed.)
Series: The New Middle Ages
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The Laborer's Two Bodies explores the intellectual, cultural, and
political consequences of one of the most fundamental shifts in
late medieval English society: the first national labour regulation
in the wake of the 1348 plague. Bridging the medieval and early
modern periods, this book analyzes a wide range of texts and images
produced in this initial period of labour regulation (1349 to
1500), including trial records, ecclesiastical bulls, penitential
literature, and chronicle accounts, considering these documents
alongside better known texts by Chaucer, Gower, Langland, the
Paston Family, Barclay and More (among others). This book
demonstrates that the category of labour (as both lived and
imagined) became increasingly problematic for writers who struggled
to understand the meaning of work in a world where labour was
simultaneously understood as punishment, virtue and reward.
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