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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812223503321

Autore

Crassons Kate

Titolo

The claims of poverty : literature, culture, and ideology in late medieval England / / Kate Crassons

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Notre Dame, Ind., : University of Notre Dame Press, c2010

ISBN

0-268-07687-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (403 p.)

Disciplina

820.9/3556

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Crasson examines the status of poverty in late medieval England as both a sacred imitation of Christ and a social stigma.