Sacred Commerce: Chaucer, Friars, and the Spirit of Money
- Author / Editor
- Epstein, Robert.
Sacred Commerce: Chaucer, Friars, and the Spirit of Money
- Published
- Robert Epstein and William Robins, eds. Sacred and Profane in Chaucer and Late Medieval Literature: Essays in Honour of John V. Fleming (Buffalo, N. Y.: University of Toronto Press, 2010), pp. 129-45.
- Description
- Epstein argues for a nuanced understanding of money in SumT, reading its significations in light of the thirteenth-century Franciscan treatise "Sacrum commercium," medieval commercial practice, and deliberations on quality and quantity among the "Oxford Calculators" of fourteenth-century Merton College. Focuses on the "long denouement" of SumT and its underlying concerns with spirituality.
- Alternative Title
- Sacred and Profane in Chaucer and Late Medieval Literature: Essays in Honour of John V. Fleming.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Summoner and His Tale.