{"product_id":"chaucers-gifts-exchange-and-value-in-the-canterbury-tales-9781786831699","title":"Chaucer's Gifts: Exchange and Value in the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeoffrey 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements                                                                                     Introduction: Chaucer’s Commodities, Chaucer’s Gifts                        1 The Franklin’s Potlatch and the Plowman’s Creed: The Gift  in the General Prologue                                                                             2 The Lack of Interest in the Shipman’s Tale: Chaucer and  the Social Theory of the Gift                                                                     3 Giving Evil: Excess and Equivalence in the Fabliau                            4 The Exchange of Women and the Gender of the Gift 5 Sacred Commerce: Clerics, Money and the Economy of  Salvation                                                                               6 ‘Fy on a thousand pound!’ Debt and the Possibility   of Generosity in the Franklin’s Tale  Conclusion  Notes  Bibliography  Index","brand":"University of Wales Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48887805444439,"sku":"9781786831699","price":19.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781786831699.jpg?v=1722546347","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/chaucers-gifts-exchange-and-value-in-the-canterbury-tales-9781786831699","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}