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 Ch...

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1. Verfasser:	Epstein, Robert 1964- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cardiff University of Wales Press [2018]
Schriftenreihe:	New century Chaucer
Schlagworte:	Chaucer, Geoffrey > 1343-1400 > The Canterbury tales Handel > Motiv Geschenk > Motiv Tausch > Motiv Chaucer, Geoffrey / -1400 / Criticism and interpretation Chaucer, Geoffrey / -1400 / Themes, motives Chaucer, Geoffrey / -1400 Commerce in literature Themes, motives Criticism, interpretation, etc
Zusammenfassung:	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
Beschreibung:	xi, 249 Seiten 23 cm
ISBN:	9781786831682 9781786831699