{"product_id":"9781846821554","title":"Poverty in 14th Century English Literature","description":"Studies of medieval poverty tend to focus on a few works, particularly Piers Plowman and related texts, and on the indigent and rural poor. This book presents a comprehensive view of poverty at different social levels, from aristocrat to pauper, and the way in which poverty is employed as a topos to reflect social and moral concerns. The literary works, primarily from the fourteenth century and set within a cultural\/historical context, represent a broad range of authors and genres, including romance, chronicle, satire, complaint, homily, hagiography, treatise, and drama, and include both well- and lesser-known pieces. There is a strong focus on the historical and literary solutions to poverty, as well as factors that influenced the complex and often conflicting attitudes towards the poor.","brand":"Four Courts Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47057100701936,"sku":"9781846821554","price":74.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781846821554_p0.jpg?v=1763746835","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781846821554","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}