W M Ormrod

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Winner and Waster and Its Contexts: Chivalry, Law and Economics in Fourteenth-Century EnglandHardcover, 19 February 2021

Winner and Waster and Its Contexts: Chivalry, Law and Economics in Fourteenth-Century England
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Print Length
208 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer
Date Published
19 Feb 2021
ISBN-10
1843845814
ISBN-13
9781843845812

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The late fourteenth-century English poem Winner and Waster narrates a debate between the forces of avarice (Winner) and generosity (Waster); it ranges widely over a number of major issues in the political life of England during Edward III's reign.
This book sets out to re-date the poem from the 1350s to the 1360s, and in so doing to question whether its principal message really revolves (as so much earlier scholarship has insisted) around the state of public order and the costs of warfare in the 1350s. Instead, it proposes that the poem echoes debates about Edward III's ability to maintain concord between the members of his household, to manage the extravagance in clothing that prompted the sumptuary laws of 1363, and to run his peace-time finances of the 1360s in such a way as to guarantee the solvency of the crown. Drawing extensively on the records of parliament and on contemporary chronicles, this volume sets Winner and Waster within the wider context of other complaint literature of the fourteenth century, and characterizes it as one of the most politically - and socially - engaged works of the period.

The late W. MARK ORMROD was Professor Emeritus of History at the University of York; he published extensively on later medieval history.

Product Details

Author:
W M Ormrod
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
GB
Date Published:
19 February 2021
Dimensions:
23.88 x 16 x 2.03 cm
Genre:
Medieval (500-1453) Studies
ISBN-10:
1843845814
ISBN-13:
9781843845812
Language:
English
Location:
Woodbridge
Pages:
208
Weight:
476.27 gm

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