Winner and Waster and Its Contexts: Chivalry, Law and Economics in Fourteenth-Century England

by W. Mark Ormrod

First recent full-length analysis of a major medieval poem.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843845814
• ISBN13: 9781843845812
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.4"