The Laborer’s Two Bodies: Literary and Legal Productions in Britain, 1350–1500

Product Description


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.


About the Author


Kellie Robertson currently serves as Director of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh. She has published articles on Geoffrey of Monmouth, Chaucer, Milton, and postcolonial theory. She is editor (along with Michael Uebel) of a collection of essays, "The Middle Ages at Work: Practicing Labor in Late Medieval England" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).