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Winner and Waster and its Contexts: Chivalry, Law and Economics in Fourteenth-Century England

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Full-length analysis of one of the most politically and socially engaged medieval poems


The late fourteenth-century English poem Winner and Waster narrates a debate between the forces of avarice (Winner) and generosity (Waster); it ranges widely over a number of major issues in the political life of England during Edward III's reign.


This book sets out to re-date the poem from the 1350s to the 1360s, and in so doing to question whether its principal message really revolves (as so much earlie...