Research Catalog

Title

The claims of poverty [electronic resource] : literature, culture, and ideology in late medieval England / Kate Crassons.

Author

Crassons, Kate.

Publication

Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2010.

Details

Description

1 online resource (xi, 389 p.)

Uniform Title

Claims of poverty (Online)

Alternative Title

Claims of poverty (Online)

Subject

• English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism
• Poverty in literature
• Social problems in literature
• Ideology in literature
• Civilization, Medieval, in literature
• Literature and society > England > History > To 1500
• Poverty > England > History > To 1500
• Poverty > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines > Middle Ages, 600-1500
• England > Social conditions > 1066-1485

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Access (note)

• Access restricted to authorized users.

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.

LCCN

2010007655

OCLC

ssj0000483359

Author

Crassons, Kate.

Title

The claims of poverty [electronic resource] : 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.

Access

Access restricted to authorized users.

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