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Antimercantilism in Late Medieval English Literature documents the trajectory of antimercantile ideology under the pressures of the major developments made in economic theory and practice in the later Middle Ages. Roger A. Ladd skillfully explores the relationship between ideology and subjectivity surrounding a single class/estate group and its characteristic sins in the context of literary texts influenced by estates satire. This book focuses in depth on both large works by well-known authors and lesser-studied works, including The Canterbury Tales , Piers Plowman , Mirour de l’Omme , The Book of Margery Kempe , The York Plays , The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye , “The Childe of Bristowe,” and the Pseudo-Chaucerian “Tale of Beryn.” Review "Ladd has provided us with a clear and thorough overview of merchant attitudes found in literature in the Late Middle Ages. This is an important foundational reading that now allows us to set off with all sorts of interesting questions."-- The Medieval Review “Ladd’s is the first fresh re-thinking of the roles merchants play in late medieval English writing in at least forty years—if not the first ever to do so systematically and comprehens

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Author

Roger A. Ladd

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan US

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780230620438

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Economics, Literary Criticism