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Arts of possession : the Middle English household imaginary
- Title
- Arts of possession : the Middle English household imaginary / D. Vance Smith.
- Author
- Smith, D. Vance, 1963-
- Publication
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2003.
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Details
- Description
- xviii, 318 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Medieval cultures ; v. 33
- Subject
- Romances, English > History and criticism
- English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism
- Households > England > History > Historiography. > To 1500
- Possession (Law) > Great Britain > History > To 1500
- House furnishings in literature
- Property in literature
- Families in literature
- Home in literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-296) and index.
- Contents
- Inescapable economy -- The repeating house: surplus and dead time -- The visible investments of winning and wasting -- Merchants in the margin: writing and the national domestic of Piers Plowman -- "How fer schall al þys good?" Sir Launfal and the sumptuary world -- Exchanging, changing, corrupting, the Arthurian house of death.
- Call Number
- JFE 04-1219
- ISBN
- 0816639507 (alk. paper)
- 0816639515 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2002015059
- OCLC
- 50669379
- Author
- Smith, D. Vance, 1963-
- Title
- Arts of possession : the Middle English household imaginary / D. Vance Smith.
- Imprint
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2003.
- Series
- Medieval cultures ; v. 33
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-296) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 04-1219