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This article suggests that the temporal schematics of lolling and hanging in Piers Plowman reveal the inequities of fourteenth-century salvific politics and expose the precariousness of temporally-bound subjects from whom institutional powers benefit. Since the poem identifies the suspended pause of lolling as both necessary for and an obstruction to Christ’s return, Piers Plowman takes seriously the precariousness of lolling subjects and questions how those who are suspended in time and body can dowel and secure a spot in a salvific future.
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