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10. “Money Earned; Money Won”: The Problem of Labor Pricing in Gower’s “Tale of the King and the Steward’s Wife”

verfasst von : Craig E. Bertolet

Erschienen in: Money, Commerce, and Economics in Late Medieval English Literature

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Abstract

This chapter reads Gower’s “Tale of the King and the Steward’s Wife” in Book 5 of Confessio Amantis as a tale of two transactions for the labor of the steward’s wife, with each transaction originating from one of two competing economic systems. The steward represents a cash-based economy while the king follows the economic practices of feudal relationships. The steward’s loss of his wife at the end of the tale does not mean that the cash-based economy is bad but that the steward has misunderstood the role of money, seeing it not as a medium of exchange but as a commodity itself.

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Vorheriges Kapitel The Need for Economy: Poetic Identity and Trade in Gower’s Confessio Amantis
Nächstes Kapitel Crossing the Threshold: Geoffrey Chaucer, Adam Smith, and the Liminal Transactionalism of the Later Middle Ages
Fußnoten
1
In my reading, I will describe the system competing with feudalism as the cash-based commercial system rather than as pre-capitalism, an unhelpful term that associates the system with what it would become later instead of what it actually was.
 
2
See my analysis of commercial issues in Mirour de l’Omme in Bertolet (2013, 17–60).
 
3
All citations from Gower’s works come from Gower 1900–1. Translations from his Latin and French works are my own.
 
4
Le Roman des Sept Sages de Rome (1989).
 
5
For an examination of self-interest in gifts masking sexual labor, see Epstein (2015, 27–48).
 
6
Roger A. Ladd suggests that Gower interprets aristocratic gift-exchange in the Confessio as “honorable donation” but one still made in a commercial environment (2014, 229–44).
 
7
See also, Smith (2003, 123–5).
 
8
Edward III was clever enough to realize that he could derive income from taxes on the cash crop of wool passing in and out of England’s ports (Friehl 2012, 179).
 
9
See Farber’s analysis of Aristotle’s discussion of the importance of money as a measure (2006, 19–25).
 
10
See Kaye (1998, 65–68).
 
11
Simmel notes that “[m]oney is never an adequate mediator of personal relationships” (1978, 407).
 
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Metadaten
Titel
“Money Earned; Money Won”: The Problem of Labor Pricing in Gower’s “Tale of the King and the Steward’s Wife”
verfasst von
Craig E. Bertolet
Copyright-Jahr
2018
Buch
Money, Commerce, and Economics in Late Medieval English Literature

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-71899-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-71900-9

Copyright-Jahr: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71900-9_10

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