Wealth and Lordship in Late Medieval Literature.
- Author / Editor
- Hole, Jennifer.
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