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Chaucer’s Gifts
ISBN-13:
9781786831712
Veröffentl:
2018
Seiten:
256
Autor:
Robert Epstein
Serie:
New Century Chaucer
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
2 - DRM Adobe
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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.
AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Chaucer's Commodities, Chaucer's Gifts1 The Franklin's Potlatch and the Plowman's Creed: The Giftin the General Prologue2 The Lack of Interest in the Shipman's Tale: Chaucer andthe Social Theory of the Gift3 Giving Evil: Excess and Equivalence in the Fabliau4 The Exchange of Women and the Gender of the Gift5 Sacred Commerce: Clerics, Money and the Economy ofSalvation6 'Fy on a thousand pound!' Debt and the Possibilityof Generosity in the Franklin's TaleConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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