Merchants, Mercantile Satire, and Problems of Estate in Late Medieval English Literature
- Author / Editor
- Ladd, Roger Alfred.
Merchants, Mercantile Satire, and Problems of Estate in Late Medieval English Literature
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 3163A, 2001.
- Description
- Clerical anti-mercantile views gradually shifted as a "guardedly pro-trade ideology" emerged. Such attitudes also appear in estates satire found in CT, Gower's "Miroir de l'Omme," "Piers Plowman," Margery Kempe, the York cycle plays, and various pro-trade fifteenth-century didactic works.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.