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Piers Plowman, Healthcare Praxis, and the Corporal Mercies

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  • I argue that Matthew’s seven acts of corporal mercies provide a means of reading Piers Plowman within a framework familiar to medieval audiences, but also exposes the different models of health that are at work within the poem and the soteriological significance of these healths. In chapter one, I focus my attention on passus B.XVII’s engagement with Good Samaritan as providing a model, or praxis, for the corporal mercies at work, an example of the act heal-the-sick, and their importance to sustaining Christian identities and communities. In chapter two, I argue that the appearance of the Emperor Trajan, a figure representing the virtuous pagan, demonstrates the power of God’s mercy when requested by a Christian who actively engages with his healths. But the corporal mercy that saves Trajan, ransom the prisoner, exercises a racial logic requiring acts of mercy be performed to benefit non-Christian peoples and Christian domination.
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  • 2022-01-03 to 2024-02-03

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