Monetary and Market Consciousness in Thirteenth and Fourteenth Century Europe

Author / Editor
Kaye, Joel.

Title
Monetary and Market Consciousness in Thirteenth and Fourteenth Century Europe

Published
S. Todd Lowry and Barry Gordon, eds. Ancient and Medieval Economic Ideas and Concepts of Social Justice. (Leiden, New York, and Köln: Brill, 1998), pp. 371-403.

Description
Discusses the "impact on . . . consciousness" of late-medieval European economic expansion, focusing on evidence in French and English chronicles and on reflections of the rise of bourgeois power in fabliaux, in the "technical language of finance and trade" of Dante's Divine Comedy, and in the details and imagery of CT, especially GP and ShT.

Alternative Title
Ancient and Medieval Economic Ideas and Concepts of Social Justice.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.
Shipman and His Tale.
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.