Craig E. (Hrsg.) Bertolet

Money, Commerce, and Economics in Late Medieval English Literature

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This is the first collection of essays dedicated to the topics of money and economics in the English literature of the late Middle Ages. These essays explore ways that late medieval economic thought informs contemporary English texts and apply modern modes of economic analysis to medieval literature. In so doing, they read the importance and influence of historical records of practices as aids to contextualizing these texts. They also apply recent modes of economic history as a means to understand the questions the texts ask about economics, trade, and money. Collectively, these papers argue that both medieval and modern economic thought are… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Epstein, Robert (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-3-319-71900-9
EAN: 9783319719009
Produktnummer: 25826403
Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 185 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 2'431 KB
Auflage: 1st ed. 2018
Abbildungen: 1 farbige Abbildungen, Bibliographie

Über den Autor

Craig E. Bertolet is Professor of Medieval English Literature at Auburn University, USA. He is the author of Chaucer, Gower, Hoccleve, and the Commercial Practices of Late Fourteenth-Century London (2013) and articles and book chapters on the intersection between medieval culture and its literature. He is at work on a book concerning the crisis of money in late medieval English literature.Robert Epstein is Professor of English at Fairfield University, USA. He is the author of Chaucer's Gifts: Exchange and Value in the Canterbury Tales (forthcoming).