At play in the tavern
Subtitle: signs, coins, and bodies in the Middle Ages
By: Andrew Cowell.
Series: Stylus
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: French literature -- To 1500 -- History and criticism.; Taverns (Inns) in literature.
Description: "At Play in the Tavern is a study of the tavern, inn, and brothel in the literature of medieval France."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-264) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Charity, hospitality, and profit; title: Le jeu de Saint Nicolas and the poetics of the tavern; title: The moral economy of the tavern; title: Autobiography and folly; title: Conclusion; title: Bibliography; title: Index.