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Exploring 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.

Author Biography:

Anne 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).
Release date NZ
January 18th, 2024
Pages
268
Audience
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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ISBN-13
9781009385954
Product ID
37943133

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