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The claims of poverty : literature, culture, and ideology in late medieval England
- Title
- The claims of poverty : literature, culture, and ideology in late medieval England / Kate Crassons.
- Author
- Crassons, Kate.
- Publication
- Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2010.
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Details
- Description
- xi, 389 p.; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Poverty > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines > Middle Ages, 600-1500
- Poverty in literature
- Social problems in literature
- English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism
- Civilization, Medieval, in literature
- England > Social conditions > 1066-1485
- Literature and society > England > History > To 1500
- Ideology in literature
- Poverty > England > History > To 1500
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 10-4907
- ISBN
- 9780268023027 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0268023026 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2010007655
- OCLC
- YBP 2010007655
- Author
- Crassons, Kate.
- Title
- The claims of poverty : literature, culture, and ideology in late medieval England / Kate Crassons.
- Imprint
- Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2010.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 10-4907