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OverviewExploring debt's permutations in Middle English texts, Anne Schuurman makes the bold claim that the capitalist spirit has its roots in Christian penitential theology. Her argument challenges the longstanding belief that faith and theological doctrine in the Middle Ages were inimical to the development of market economies, showing that the same idea of debt is in fact intrinsic to both. The double penitential-financial meaning of debt, and the spiritual paradoxes it creates, is a linchpin of scholastic and vernacular theology, and of the imaginative literature of late medieval England. Focusing on the doubleness of debt, this book traces the dynamic by which the Christian ascetic ideal, in its rejection of material profit and wealth acquisition, ends up producing precisely what it condemns. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Anne Schuurman (University of Western Ontario)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9781009385954ISBN 10: 100938595 Pages: 268 Publication Date: 18 January 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationAnne Schuurman is Associate Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. She is the author of Shame and Guilt in Chaucer (2012) and co-editor of An Epistle of Noble Poetrye (2022). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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