ISBN: 9781025483993 - a good short debate between winner and waster: an alliterative poem on social and economic problems in england in the year 1352: with modern english rendering (1 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A Good Short Debate Between Winner and Waster' is a significant 14th-century alliterative poem that serves as a powerful social and economic commentary on life in England around the year 1352. Written during a period of profound transition and unrest following the Black Death, the poem utilizes the traditional dream vision framework to present a debate between two allegorical figures: Winner, who represents the merchant class and the accumulation of wealth, and Waster, who represents the profligate aristocracy and the consumption of resources.…