Lordship and literature : John Gower and the politics of the great household /
Kendall, Elliot Richard,1974-
Oxford : Clarendon Press,
2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-291) and index.
The great household and an economics of power -- The political economy in the late fourteenth century -- Service allegory: the great household in Geniuss confession -- Courtly love and the lordship of Venus -- Women as household exchange in Geniuss tales -- Justice and the affinity -- Retribution as household exchange in Geniuss tales -- Total reciprocity and the problem of kingship.
Gower, John, 1325?-1408.
Aristocracy (Social class) in literature.
Social networks in literature.
Social exchange in literature.
Social structure in literature.
Aristocracy (Social class)
Power (Social sciences)
Social structure
Households
Households