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The claims of poverty : literature, culture, and ideology in late medieval England / Kate Crassons.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crassons, Kate.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Poverty in literature.
- Social problems in literature.
- Ideology in literature.
- Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
- Literature and society--England--History--To 1500.
- Literature and society.
- Poverty--England--History--To 1500.
- Poverty.
- Poverty--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
- England--Social conditions--1066-1485.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (403 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Crasson examines the status of poverty in late medieval England as both a sacred imitation of Christ and a social stigma.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780268076870
- 0268076871
- OCLC:
- 694144526
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