Title
Money, Commerce, and Economics in Late Medieval English Literature
Role
Co-editors: Craig E. Bertolet and Robert Epstein
Contributing authors: Craig E. Bertolet and Robert Epstein
Files
Document Type
Book Contribution
Description/Summary
In addition to co-editing, Robert Epstein and Craig Bertolet are contributing authors, “Introduction: Greet Press at Market” and Robert Epstein is a contributing author, “Summoning Hunger: Polanyi, Piers Plowman, and the Labor Market”.
Book description:
This is the first collection of essays dedicated to the topics of money and economics in the English literature of the late Middle Ages. These essays explore ways that late medieval economic thought informs contemporary English texts and apply modern modes of economic analysis to medieval literature. In so doing, they read the importance and influence of historical records of practices as aids to contextualizing these texts. They also apply recent modes of economic history as a means to understand the questions the texts ask about economics, trade, and money. Collectively, these papers argue that both medieval and modern economic thought are key to valuable historical contextualization of medieval literary texts, but that this criticism can be advanced only if we also recognize the specificity of the economic and social conditions of late-medieval England.
ISBN
9783319718996
Publication Date
2018
Publication Information
Epstein, Robert, and Craig E. Bertolet. “Introduction: Greet Press at Market" In Money, Commerce, and Economics in Late Medieval English Literature. Robert Epstein and Craig E. Bertolet, Eds. Palgrave MacMillan, 2018.
Epstein, Robert. "“Summoning Hunger: Polanyi, Piers Plowman, and the Labor Market.” In Money, Commerce, and Economics in Late Medieval English Literature. Robert Epstein and Craig E. Bertolet, Eds. Palgrave MacMillan, 2018.
Recommended Citation
Bertolet, Craig E. and Epstein, Robert, "Money, Commerce, and Economics in Late Medieval English Literature" (2018). English Faculty Book Gallery. 76.
https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/english-books/76
Comments
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