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Cover 1 Series Page 4 Title Page 5 Copyright Page 6 Dedication 7 Contents 9 Acknowledgements 11 Introduction: Chaucer’s Commodities, Chaucer’s Gifts 15 1. The Franklin's Potlatch and the Plowman's Creed: The Gift in the General Prologue 29 2. The Lack of Interest in the Shipman’s Tale:Chaucer and the Social Theory of the Gift 57 3. Giving Evil: Excess and Equivalence in the Fabliau 81 4. The Exchange of Women and the Gender of the Gift 111 5. Sacred Commerce: Clerics, Money and the Economy of Salvation 157 6. ‘Fy on a thousand pound! ’: Debt and the Possibility of Generosity in the Franklin’s Tale 185 Conclusion 211 Notes 217 Bibliography 243 Index 257 Back Cover 266

Author

Robert Epstein

Language

EN