The Claims of Poverty : Literature, Culture, and Ideology in Late Medieval England /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Crassons, Kate
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Poverty > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Poverty > England > History > To 1500.
Literature and society > England > History > To 1500.
Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
Ideology in literature.
Social problems in literature.
Poverty in literature.
English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism.
England > Social conditions > 1066-1485.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Forms of need: the allegorical representation of poverty in Piers Plowman
  • Poverty exposed: the evangelical and epistemological ideal of Pierce the Ploughman's crede
  • "Clamerous" beggars and "nedi" knights: poverty and Wycliffite reform
  • The costs of sanctity: Margery Kempe and the Franciscan imaginary
  • Communal identities: performing poverty, charity, and labor in York's Corpus Christi theater
  • Nickel and dimed: poverty polemic medieval and modern.

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