Exchequers and Balances: Anxieties of Exchange in The Tale of Beryn
- Author / Editor
- Adams, Jenny.
Exchequers and Balances: Anxieties of Exchange in The Tale of Beryn
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 26 (2004): 267-97.
- Description
- Adams argues that the "discourse of gaming" underlies "Beryn" and its Prologue (a.k.a. "The Canterbury Interlude"), which offer "centralized regulation as a solution to the inequalities inherent in exchange and commerce."
- Less optimistic about mercantile trust and goodwill than is Chaucer in CT (especially ShT), the "Beryn" author is nevertheless a good deal less distrustful of commerce than is Langland in "Piers Plowman."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucerian Apocrypha.
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Shipman and His Tale.