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<P>Geoffrey Chaucer’s <I>Canterbury Tales</I>, 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. <I>Chaucer’s Gifts</I> 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. <I>Chaucer’s Gifts</I> argues that the world of the <I>Canterbury Tales</I> 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.</P>

Author

Robert William Epstein

Publisher

Book Network Int'l Limited trading as NBN International (NBNi)

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781786831729

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Business, Literary Fiction