Crassons, Kate.

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.


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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.


England--Social conditions--1066-1485.


Electronic books.

PR275.S63 / C73 2010eb