The claims of poverty : literature, culture, and ideology in late medieval England /
Crassons, Kate.
Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press,
c2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
English literature
Poverty in literature.
Social problems in literature.
Ideology in literature.
Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
Literature and society
Poverty
Poverty