Time's Reckoning: Time, Value and the Mercantile Class in Late Medieval English Literature
- Author / Editor
- Walts, Dawn Simmons.
Time's Reckoning: Time, Value and the Mercantile Class in Late Medieval English Literature
- Published
- DAI A68.07 (2008): n.p.
- Description
- Employs Jacques Le Goff's ideas of "Church time" and "merchant's time" to consider reckoning of time and social rank in the York cycle, "Pearl," and works of Chaucer. In particular, Astr suggests knowledge of time, while MilT and ShT demonstrate that an ability to understand time affords some individuals an advantage over those who lack the ability.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Treatise on the Astrolabe
- Miller and His Tale
- Shipman and His Tale