The Account Book and the Treasure: Gilbert Maghfield's Textual Economy and the Poetics of Mercantile Accounting in Ricardian Literature
- Author / Editor
- Galloway, Andrew.
The Account Book and the Treasure: Gilbert Maghfield's Textual Economy and the Poetics of Mercantile Accounting in Ricardian Literature
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 33 (2011): 65-124.
- Description
- Uses Maghfield's account book of mercantile and monetary transactions (1390-95) to explore the "ways in which mercantile culture and the 'new literacies' associated with credit and commerce contributed centrally to the development of Ricardian literature." Reviews Maghfield's career--including his relations with Chaucer and others--and demonstrates that mercantile accounting influenced ideas of faith and credit in "Piers Plowman," timing and loaning in WBP and ShT, contracts and rhetoric in Gower's "Confessio Amantis," and professional status in Usk's "Testament of Love."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Life
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
- Shipman and His Tale