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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Crassons, Kate
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, [2010]
Subjects:	Poverty > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines > Middle Ages, 600-1500. Poverty > England > History > To 1500. Literature and society > England > History > To 1500. Civilization, Medieval, in literature. Ideology in literature. Social problems in literature. Poverty in literature. English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism. England > Social conditions > 1066-1485. Electronic books.
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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.