Wealth and Lordship in Late Medieval Literature.

Author / Editor
Hole, Jennifer.

Title
Wealth and Lordship in Late Medieval Literature.

Published
Jennifer Hole. Economic Ethics in Late Medieval England, 1300-1500 (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), pp. 99-125.

Description
Surveys literary depictions of economic ideals and economic abuses among the aristocracy in ParsT; Form Age; Wynnere and Wastoure"; "Piers Plowman"; and works by Gower, Hoccleve, and Lydgate, focusing on the "portrayal of lords and rulers, both as offenders and as ethical role models," and concluding that the writers were generally "conservative commentators on economic ethics," reflecting Church teachings and nostalgia for an idealized, precommercial past.

Alternative Title
Economic Ethics in Late Medieval England, 1300-1500.

Chaucer Subjects
Former Age
Parson and His Tale