The claims of poverty literature, culture, and ideology in late medieval England / [electronic resource] :
Kate Crassons.
- Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2010.
- xi, 389 p.
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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English literature--History and criticism.--Middle English, 1100-1500 Poverty in literature. Social problems in literature. Ideology in literature. Civilization, Medieval, in literature. Literature and society--History--England--To 1500. Poverty--History--England--To 1500. Poverty--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500.