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Winner and Waster and its Contexts - Chivalry, Law and Economics in Fourteenth-Century England (Hardcover)
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Winner and Waster and its Contexts - Chivalry, Law and Economics in Fourteenth-Century England (Hardcover)
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First recent full-length analysis of a major medieval poem. 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 the state of
public order and the costs of warfare in the 1350s. Instead, it
proposes that the poem echoes debates about Edward III's ability to
maintain concord between the members of his household, to manage
the extravagance in clothing that prompted the sumptuary laws of
1363, and to run his peace-time finances of the 1360s in such a way
as to guarantee the solvency of the crown. Drawing extensively on
the records of parliament and on contemporary chronicles, this
volume sets Winner and Waster within the wider context of other
complaint literature of the fourteenth century, and characterizes
it as one of the most politically - and socially - engaged works of
the period.
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