Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The claims of poverty

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Responsibility statement

Kate Crassons

Sub title

literature, culture, and ideology in late medieval England

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

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