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Arts of possession : the Middle English household imaginary
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Arts of possession : the Middle English household imaginary / D. Vance Smith.
ISBN
0816639507 (alk. paper)
0816639515 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2003.
Physical Description
xviii, 318 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 29, 2003
Series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-296) and index.
Contents
Inescapable economy
The repeating house: surplus and dead time
The visible investments of winning and wasting
Merchants in the margin: writing and the national domestic of Piers Plowman
"How fer schall al þys good?" Sir Launfal and the sumptuary world
Exchanging, changing, corrupting, the Arthurian house of death.
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