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02673aam a2200445Ii 4500 001 7DDBF9D0840911E89478B85797128E48 003 SILO 005 20180710010618 008 171102t20182018wlk b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9781786831699 020 $a 1786831694 020 $a 1786831686 020 $a 9781786831682 035 $a (OCoLC)1010615591 040 $a ERASA $b eng $e rda $c ERASA $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d CDX $d OCLCF $d INU $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d GUA $d SILO 050 4 $a PR1905 $b .E67 2018 082 04 $a 821/.1 $2 23 100 1 $a Epstein, Robert W. $q (Robert William), $d 1964- $e author. 245 10 $a Chaucer's gifts : $b exchange and value in the Canterbury tales / $c Robert W. Epstein. 264 1 $a Cardiff : $b University of Wales Press, $c [2018] 300 $a xi, 249 pages ; $c 23 cm 490 1 $a New century Chaucer 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-242) and index. 520 8 $a Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the most celebrated literary work of medieval England, portrays the culture of the late Middle Ages as a deeply commercial environment, replete with commodities and dominated by market relationships. However, the market is not the only mode of exchange in Chaucer's world or in his poem. Chaucer's Gifts reveals the gift economy at work in the tales. Applying important recent advances in anthropological gift theory, it illuminates and explains this network of exchanges and obligations. Chaucer's Gifts argues that the world of the Canterbury Tales harbours deep commitments to reciprocity and obligation which are at odds with a purely commercial culture, and demonstrates how the market and commercial relations are not natural, eternal, or inevitable - an essential lesson if we are to understand Chaucer's world or our own. 600 10 $a Chaucer, Geoffrey, $d -1400 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Chaucer, Geoffrey, $d -1400 $x Themes, motives. 600 17 $a Chaucer, Geoffrey, $d -1400. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01812213 650 0 $a Commerce in literature. 650 7 $a Commerce in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00869324 650 7 $a Themes, motives. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01355139 600 17 $a Chaucer, Geoffrey $d 1343-1400 $t The Canterbury tales $2 gnd $0 (DE-588)4135927-6 650 7 $a Handel $g Motiv $2 gnd $0 (DE-588)4221403-8 650 7 $a Tausch $g Motiv $2 gnd $0 (DE-588)4712886-0 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 830 0 $a New century Chaucer. 941 $a 3 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20240724074102.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231020010917.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190502023229.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7DDBF9D0840911E89478B85797128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search