An Anatomy of Trade in Medieval Writing: Value, Consent, and Community
- Author / Editor
- Farber, Lianna.
An Anatomy of Trade in Medieval Writing: Value, Consent, and Community
- Published
- Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2006.
- Physical Description
- x, 235 pp.
- Description
- Farber examines the "idea of trade . . . in medieval writing from the middle of the twelfth to the early fifteenth century," examining theoretical treatises and literary depictions of trade and its relations to valuation, marital exchanges, and ideals of community. Assesses "Precarious Value in Chaucer's Shipman's Tale and Franklin's Tale" (pp. 68-83) - a discussion of surplus and the impermanence of value in ShT and of the precariousness of value in FranT - and reprints "The Creation of Consent in Chaucer's Physician's Tale."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Shipman and His Tale.
- Franklin and His Tale.
- Physician and His Tale.