Money, Commerce, and Economics in Late Medieval English Literature

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Bertolet, Craig E. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Epstein, Robert (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: The New Middle Ages
• Θέματα: Literature, Medieval.; British literature.; Economic history.; Medieval Literature.; British and Irish Literature.; Economic History.

This is the first collection of essays dedicated to the topics of money and economics in the English literature of the late Middle Ages. These essays explore ways that late medieval economic thought informs contemporary English texts and apply modern modes of economic analysis to medieval literature...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1 Introduction: "Greet press at market": Money Matters in Late Medieval English Literature
• 2 Judas and the Economics of Salvation in Medieval English Literature
• 3 "Whoso wele schal wyn, a wastour moste he fynde": Inter-reliant Economies and Social Capital in Wynnere and Wastoure
• 4 "The ryche man hatz more nede thanne the pore": Economics and Dependence in Dives and Pauper
• 5 Summoning Hunger: Polanyi, Piers Plowman, and the Labor Market
• 6 Demonic Ambiguity: Debt in the Friar-Summoner Sequence
• 7 Death is Money: Buying Trouble with the Pardoner
• 8: My Purse and My Person: "The Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse" and the Gender of Money
• 9 The Need for Economy: Poetic Identity and Trade in Gower's Confessio Amantis
• 10: "Money Earned; Money Won": The Problem of Labor Pricing in Gower's "Tale of the King and the Steward's Wife"
• 11 Crossing the Threshold: Geoffrey Chaucer, Adam Smith, and the Liminal Transactionalism of the Later Middle Ages.