The claims of poverty
Subtitle: literature, culture, and ideology in late medieval England
By: Kate Crassons
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Notre Dame, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 389
ISBN-13: 9780268023027
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Forms of need: the allegorical representation of poverty in Piers Plowman; title: Poverty exposed: the evangelical and epistemological ideal of Pierce the Ploughman's crede; title: "Clamerous" beggars and "nedi" knights: poverty and Wycliffite reform; title: The costs of sanctity: Margery Kempe and the Franciscan imaginary; title: Communal identities: performing poverty, charity, and labor in York's Corpus Christi theater; title: Nickel and dimed: poverty polemic medieval and modern.