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Chaucer, Gower, Hoccleve and the Commercial Practices of Late Fourteenth-Century London (Paperback)
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Chaucer, Gower, Hoccleve and the Commercial Practices of Late Fourteenth-Century London (Paperback)
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As residents of fourteenth-century London, Geoffrey Chaucer, John
Gower, and Thomas Hoccleve each day encountered aspects of commerce
such as buying, selling, and worrying about being cheated. Many of
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales address how pervasive the market had
become in personal relationships. Gower's writings include praises
of the concept of trade and worries that widespread fraud has
harmed it. Hoccleve's poetry examines the difficulty of living in
London on a slender salary while at the same time being subject to
all the temptations a rich market can provide. Each writer finds
that principal tensions in London focused on commerce - how it
worked, who controlled it, how it was organized, and who was
excluded from it. Reading literary texts through the lens of
archival documents and the sociological theories of Pierre
Bourdieu, this book demonstrates how the practices of buying and
selling in medieval London shaped the writings of Chaucer, Gower,
and Hoccleve. Craig Bertolet constructs a framework that reads
specific Canterbury tales and pilgrims associated with trade
alongside Gower's Mirour de L'Omme and Confessio Amantis, and
Hoccleve's Male Regle and Regiment of Princes. Together, these
texts demonstrate how the inherent instability commerce produces
also produces narratives about that commerce.
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