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
Subjects: English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism; Poverty in literature; Social problems in literature; Ideology in literature; Civilization, Medieval, in literature; Literature and society -- England -- History -- To 1500; Poverty -- England -- History -- To 1500; Poverty -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500; England -- Social conditions -- 1066-1485
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; 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 Wyclifþte 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: Epilogue. Nickel and dimed: poverty polemic medieval and modern.