Money, Commerce, and Economics in Late Medieval English Literature

1 Introduction: "Greet press at market": Money Matters in Late Medieval English Literature.- 2 Judas and the Economics of Salvation in Medieval English Literature.- 3 "Whoso wele schal wyn, a wastour moste he fynde": Inter-reliant Economies and Social Capital in Wynnere and Wastoure.- 4 "The ryche man hatz more nede thanne the pore": Economics and Dependence in Dives and Paup er. - 5 Summoning Hunger: Polanyi, Piers Plowman , and the Labor Market.- 6 Demonic Ambiguity: Debt in the Friar-Summoner Sequence.- 7 Death is Money: Buying Trouble with the Pardoner.- 8: My Purse and My Person: "The Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse" and the Gender of Money.- 9 The Need for Economy: Poetic Identity and Trade in Gower's Confessio Amantis.- 10: "Money Earned; Money Won": The Problem of Labor Pricing in Gower's "Tale of the King and the Steward's Wife".- 11 Crossing the Threshold: Geoffrey Chaucer, Adam Smith, and the Liminal Transactionalism of the Later Middle Ages.