This is an exploration the intellectual 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.

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KELLIE ROBERTSON is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.

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Book Title: The Laborer's Two Bodies
Book Subtitle: Literary and Legal Productions in Britain, 1350-1500
Authors: Kellie Robertson
Series Title: The New Middle Ages
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-06784-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6516-5Published: 23 February 2006
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-06784-5Published: 30 April 2016
Series ISSN: 2945-5936
Series E-ISSN: 2945-5944
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 276
Topics: Sociology of Work, British Politics, Medieval Literature, History of Medieval Europe, Political Science, Classical and Antique Literature

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction: Keeping Paradise

The Laborer’s Two Bodies

Chaucer and the Enforcement of the Labor Statutes

The Ideology of Common Profit: Rebels, Heretics, Merchants

Corporeal Style: Representing the Gentry Household

“Let God Work!”: Drama and Rebellion in Fifteenth-Century East Anglia

Epilogue: Vagrant Times

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