Antimercantilism in Late Medieval English Literature

by Ladd, Roger A.

• ISBN13: 9780230620438
• ISBN10: 0230620434
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-09-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This study explores the relationship between ideology and subjectivity in late medieval literature, documenting the trajectory of antimercantile ideology alongside major developments in economic theory and practice in the later Middle Ages.

Author Biography

Roger A Ladd is Assistant Professor of English at University of North Carolina at Pembroke.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
An Introduction to Late Medieval English Literary Merchants	p. 1
Langland's Merchants and the Material and Spiritual Economies of Piers Plowman B	p. 23
The Mirour de l'Omme and Gower's London Merchants	p. 49
The Deliberate Ambiguity of Chaucer's Anxious Merchants	p. 77
Mercantile Voices of the Early Fifteenth Century	p. 101
The Mercers, Civic Power, and Charity in the York Cycle	p. 133
Conclusion: From Finchale To York: Are Merchants Respectable by 1500?	p. 157
Notes	p. 161
Bibliography	p. 195
Index	p. 213
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