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Chaucer's gifts : exchange and value in the Canterbury tales
- Title
- Chaucer's gifts : exchange and value in the Canterbury tales / Robert W. Epstein.
- Author
- Epstein, Robert W. (Robert William), 1964-
- Publication
- Cardiff : University Of Wales Press, [2018]
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- xi, 249 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the most celebrated literary work of medieval England, portrays the culture of the late Middle Ages as a deeply commercial environment, replete with commodities and dominated by market relationships. However, the market is not the only mode of exchange in Chaucer's world or in his poem. Chaucer's Gifts reveals the gift economy at work in the tales. Applying important recent advances in anthropological gift theory, it illuminates and explains this network of exchanges and obligations. Chaucer's Gifts argues that the world of the Canterbury Tales harbours deep commitments to reciprocity and obligation which are at odds with a purely commercial culture, and demonstrates how the market and commercial relations are not natural, eternal, or inevitable - an essential lesson if we are to understand Chaucer's world or our own.
- Series Statement
- New century Chaucer
- Uniform Title
- New century Chaucer.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-242) and index.
- Call Number
- JFD 18-1666
- ISBN
- 9781786831682
- 1786831686
- 1786831694
- 9781786831699
- OCLC
- 1010615591
- Author
- Epstein, Robert W. (Robert William), 1964- author.
- Title
- Chaucer's gifts : exchange and value in the Canterbury tales / Robert W. Epstein.
- Publisher
- Cardiff : University Of Wales Press, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- New century ChaucerNew century Chaucer.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-242) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 18-1666