Winner and Waster and Its Contexts: Chivalry, Law and Economics in Fourteenth-Century England
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The late fourteenth-century English poem Winner and Waster narrates a debate between the forces of avarice (Winner) and generosity (Waster); it ranges widely over a number of major issues in the political life of England during Edward III's reign.
This book sets out to re-date the poem from the 1350s to the 1360s, and in so doing to question whether its principal message really revolves (as so much earlier scholarship has insisted) around...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1843845814
ISBN13:9781843845812
Release Date:February 2021
Publisher:Boydell & Brewer
Length:208 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.3" x 9.4"
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