Merchants, Mercantile Satire, and Problems of Estate in Late Medieval English Literature

Author / Editor
Ladd, Roger Alfred.

Title
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.