Abstract
This essay suggests that the figure of the plowman in late medieval literature has beguiled scholars into misunderstanding the medieval peasantry. For literary critics, the plowman genre has encouraged a limited, canon-dominated approach to the cultural remains of late medieval peasants. For historians, the figure of the plowman has flattened the medieval peasantry into a single class and a single (male) gender.
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