The claims of poverty : literature, culture, and ideology in late medieval England / / Kate Crassons.

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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:xi, 389 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.