The Theology Of Debt In Late Medieval English Literature

Author : Anne Schuurman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 100938595X
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theology of Debt in Late Medieval English Literature written by Anne Schuurman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-31 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne Schuurman makes the striking argument that medieval literature engenders the spirit of capitalism by defining the sinner as debtor.

Author : Anne Schuurman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009385968
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theology of Debt in Late Medieval English Literature written by Anne Schuurman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-31 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring debt's permutations in Middle English texts, Anne Schuurman makes the bold claim that the capitalist spirit has its roots in Christian penitential theology. Her argument challenges the longstanding belief that faith and theological doctrine in the Middle Ages were inimical to the development of market economies, showing that the same idea of debt is in fact intrinsic to both. The double penitential-financial meaning of debt, and the spiritual paradoxes it creates, is a linchpin of scholastic and vernacular theology, and of the imaginative literature of late medieval England. Focusing on the doubleness of debt, this book traces the dynamic by which the Christian ascetic ideal, in its rejection of material profit and wealth acquisition, ends up producing precisely what it condemns. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Author : Craig E. Bertolet
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319719009
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Money, Commerce, and Economics in Late Medieval English Literature written by Craig E. Bertolet and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first collection of essays dedicated to the topics of money and economics in the English literature of the late Middle Ages. These essays explore ways that late medieval economic thought informs contemporary English texts and apply modern modes of economic analysis to medieval literature. In so doing, they read the importance and influence of historical records of practices as aids to contextualizing these texts. They also apply recent modes of economic history as a means to understand the questions the texts ask about economics, trade, and money. Collectively, these papers argue that both medieval and modern economic thought are key to valuable historical contextualization of medieval literary texts, but that this criticism can be advanced only if we also recognize the specificity of the economic and social conditions of late-medieval England.

Author : Tyler Lange
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316565378
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Excommunication for Debt in Late Medieval France written by Tyler Lange and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late medieval church courts frequently excommunicated debtors at the request of their creditors. Tyler Lange analyzes over 11,000 excommunications between 1380 and 1530 in order to explore the forms, rhythms, and cultural significance of the practice. Three case studies demonstrate how excommunication for debt facilitated minor transactions in an age of scarce small-denomination coinage and how interest-free loans and sales credits could be viewed as encouraging the relations of charitable exchange that were supposed to exist between members of Christ's body. Lange also demonstrates how from 1500 or so believers gradually turned away from the practice and towards secular courts, at the same time as they retained the moralized, economically irrational conception of indebtedness we have yet to shake. The demand-driven rise and fall of excommunication for debt reveals how believers began to reshape the institutional Church well before Martin Luther posted his theses.

Author : Emma O. Bérat
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009434756
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Genealogies in the Medieval Literary Imagination written by Emma O. Bérat and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emma O. Bérat shows the centrality of women's legacies to medieval political and literary thought in chronicles, hagiography, and genealogy.

Author : Andrew Hass
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks Online
ISBN 13 : 0199271976
Total Pages : 909 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology written by Andrew Hass and published by Oxford Handbooks Online. This book was released on 2007-03-15 with total page 909 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A defining volume of essays in which leading international scholars apply an interdisciplinary approach to the long and evolving relationship between English Literature and Theology.

Author : Tyler Lange
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781316566398
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Excommunication for Debt in Late Medieval France: The Business of Salvation written by Tyler Lange and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A re-evaluation of late medieval church courts' role in the enforcement of minor credit through the widespread, frequent excommunication of debtors.

Author : Alastair Minnis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521515947
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Translations of Authority in Medieval English Literature written by Alastair Minnis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-19 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minnis presents the fruits of a long-term engagement with the ways in which crucial ideological issues were deployed in vernacular texts. He addresses the crisis for vernacular translation precipitated by the Lollard heresy, Langland's views on indulgences, Chaucer's tales of suspicious saints and risible relics, and more.

Author : Emma Lipton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Affections of the Mind written by Emma Lipton and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on marriage as a fluid and contested category rather than one with a fixed meaning, and argues that the late medieval literature of sacramental marriage subverted aristocratic and clerical traditions of love and marriage.

Author : Emma Lipton
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268085897
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Affections of the Mind written by Emma Lipton and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Affections of the Mind argues that a politicized negotiation of issues of authority in the institution of marriage can be found in late medieval England, where an emergent middle class of society used a sacramental model of marriage to exploit contradictions within medieval theology and social hierarchy. Emma Lipton traces the unprecedented popularity of marriage as a literary topic and the tensions between different models of marriage in the literature of the later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries by analyzing such texts as Chaucer's Franklin's Tale, The Book of Margery Kempe, and the N-Town plays. Affections of the Mind focuses on marriage as a fluid and contested category rather than one with a fixed meaning, and argues that the late medieval literature of sacramental marriage subverted aristocratic and clerical traditions of love and marriage in order to promote the values of the lay middle strata of society. This book will be of value to a broad range of scholars in medieval studies.