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From: Tom Cadmus
T1: Cadmust
Date: 4/6/98
Time: 4:50:58 PM
Remote Name: 130.68.21.159
I would agree that fear of God or of the Bible as you put it was the most stressed point in book VI. The Staute Of Labourers stresses more "earthly" and immediate sufferings (ie. incarceration). Of course that kind of suffering is not absent in book six but the earthly punishments (hunger, etc.)are ones levied by God or Piers (the christ figure). The statute and book VI make it apparent that the peasants were there to serve by heavenely decree as well as royal decree.