Chaucer's Gifts - Exchange and Value in the Canterbury Tales (Paperback)

Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the most celebrated literary work of medieval England, portrays the culture of the late Middle Ages as a deeply commercial environment, replete with commodities and dominated by market relationships. However, the market is not the only mode of exchange in Chaucer's world or in his poem. Chaucer's Gifts reveals the gift economy at work in the tales. Applying important recent advances in anthropological gift theory, it illuminates and explains this network of exchanges and obligations. Chaucer's Gifts argues that the world of the Canterbury Tales harbours deep commitments to reciprocity and obligation which are at odds with a purely commercial culture, and demonstrates how the market and commercial relations are not natural, eternal, or inevitable - an essential lesson if we are to understand Chaucer's world or our own.

General

Imprint:	University Of Wales Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	New Century Chaucer
Release date:	2018
First published:	2018
Authors:	Robert Epstein
Dimensions:	140 x 216 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-1-78683-169-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General Promotions
LSN:	1-78683-169-4
Barcode:	9781786831699

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