Antimercantilism in late medieval English literature
By: Roger A. Ladd.
Series: The new Middle Ages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780230620438
Subjects: English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500; Mercantile system in literature; Economics in literature; Social history -- Medieval, 500-1500
Description: "Antimercantilism in Late Medieval English Literature explores the relationship between ideology and subjectivity surrounding a single class/estate group and its characteristic sins in the context of literary texts influenced by estates satire. This book focuses in depth on both large works by well-known authors and lesser-studied works, including The Canterbury Tales, Piers Plowman, Gower's Mirour de l'Omme, The Book of Margery Kempe, The York Plays, The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye, "The Childe of Bristowe," and the Pseudo-Chaucerian "Tale of Beryn." Its approach documents the trajectory of antimercantile ideology under the pressures of the major developments made in economic theory and practice in the later Middle Ages"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.