The claims of poverty [electronic resource] : literature, culture, and ideology in late medieval England / Kate Crassons.
Material type:
- 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
- PR275.S63 C73 2010eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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