Chaucer's Gifts: Exchange and Value in the Canterbury Tales

ISBN-13: 9781786831699 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 256 str.

Robert Epstein

Opis

Chaucer's Gifts applies the theoretical approaches of economic anthropology to the Canterbury Tales, to show that in Chaucer's world the exchange of gifts is as prevalent as the purchase of commodities, and that social relations are as important as money and the market.