The Gender of Money in Middle English Literature Value and Economy i
The Gender of Money in Middle English Literature: Value and Economy in Late Medieval England explores the vital and under-examined role that gender plays in the conceptualization of money and value in a period that precedes and shapes what we now recogniz
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The Gender of Money in Middle English Literature Value and Economy in Late Medieval England Diane Cady
The New Middle Ages Series Editor Bonnie Wheeler English and Medieval Studies Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX, USA
The New Middle Ages is a series dedicated to pluridisciplinary studies of medieval cultures, with particular emphasis on recuperating women’s history and on feminist and gender analyses. This peer-reviewed series includes both scholarly monographs and essay collections. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14239
Diane Cady
The Gender of Money in Middle English Literature Value and Economy in Late Medieval England
Diane Cady Mills College Oakland, CA, USA
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Acknowledgements
A book cannot be written without debts. However, they are the kind of debts that one is both thankful to acquire and happy to acknowledge. I am grateful to the Huntington Library for granting me a two-month fellowship early on in the conceptualizing of this project. It was there, with time and space—and many afternoon walks with colleagues through the gardens—that an idea actualized into a book. Indeed, this book would never have come to fruition without conversations with generous friends and colleagues, including Michael Calabrese, Joseph Campana, Georgiana Donavin, Robert E
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