The Tales of Two Transactions: The Franklin, the Shipman, Feudalism, and the Medieval Atlantic Maritime World System.
- Author / Editor
- Bertolet, Craig E.
The Tales of Two Transactions: The Franklin, the Shipman, Feudalism, and the Medieval Atlantic Maritime World System.
- Published
- Brian Gastle and Erick Kelemen, eds. Later Middle English Literature, Materiality, and Culture: Essays in Honor of James M. Dean (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2018.), pp. 167-88.
- Description
- Compares ShT and FranT as works that assign different values to "the transaction for a woman’s body . . . couched in the tale-teller's understanding of his own economic system." ShT reflects the coin-based economy of the "Atlantic maritime commercial economy"; FranT, the oath-based economy of feudalism--two different but contemporaneous systems of negotiating "the commodity of worthiness."
- Alternative Title
- Later Middle English Literature, Materiality, and Culture:
- Chaucer Subjects
- Shipman and His Tale
Franklin and His Tale