Risk before Risk: Actuarial Logic and Mercantile Metaphors in the "Canterbury Tales."
- Author / Editor
- Bude, Tekla.
Risk before Risk: Actuarial Logic and Mercantile Metaphors in the "Canterbury Tales."
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 45 (2023): 73-103.
- Description
- Shows that "actuarial forms of thinking" underlie the CT, particularly the tale-telling contest, the opening and closing of the GP, sea-trade and risk in the GP descriptions of the Merchant and the Shipman, and associative links nbetween mercantilism and alchemy in CYPT. Considers predictive and determinative aspects of "aventure," and explores the putatively modern issues of risk management, insurance, and credit in proto-capitalistic thought and practice as refracted in CT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Style and Versification
Merhant and His Tale
Shipman and His Tale
Canon's Yeoman and His Tale