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

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Crassons, Kate.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• Beschreibung: xi, 389 p.

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.