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Crassons Kate
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Titolo: |
The claims of poverty : literature, culture, and ideology in late medieval England / / Kate Crassons
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Pubblicazione: | Notre Dame, Ind., : University of Notre Dame Press, c2010 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (403 p.) |
Disciplina: | 820.9/3556 |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
Soggetto geografico: | England Social conditions 1066-1485 |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The claims of poverty ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-268-07687-1 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910812223503321 |
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