TY - BOOK AU - Crassons,Kate ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - The claims of poverty: literature, culture, and ideology in late medieval England AV - PR275.S63 C73 2010eb PY - 2010/// CY - Notre Dame, Ind. PB - University of Notre Dame Press KW - English literature KW - Middle English, 1100-1500 KW - History and criticism KW - Poverty in literature KW - Social problems in literature KW - Ideology in literature KW - Civilization, Medieval, in literature KW - Literature and society KW - England KW - History KW - To 1500 KW - Poverty KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity KW - History of doctrines KW - Middle Ages, 600-1500 KW - Social conditions KW - 1066-1485 KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Forms of need: the allegorical representation of poverty in Piers Plowman -- Poverty exposed: the evangelical and epistemological ideal of Pierce the Ploughman's crede -- "Clamerous" beggars and "nedi" knights: poverty and Wycliffite reform -- The costs of sanctity: Margery Kempe and the Franciscan imaginary -- Communal identities: performing poverty, charity, and labor in York's Corpus Christi theater -- Nickel and dimed: poverty polemic medieval and modern; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10423375 ER -