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Author Crassons, Kate.

Title The claims of poverty [electronic resource] : literature, culture, and ideology in late medieval England / Kate Crassons.

Imprint Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2010.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xi, 389 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism.
Poverty in literature.
Social problems in literature.
Ideology in literature.
Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
Literature and society -- England -- History -- To 1500.
Poverty -- England -- History -- To 1500.
Poverty -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
England -- Social conditions -- 1066-1485.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780268023027 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0268023026 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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