The Culture of Usury in Renaissance England
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The Culture of Usury in Renaissance England

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The Culture of Usury in Renaissance England

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This book examines the ways in which usury was perceived and portrayed as it rose to popularity in Renaissance England, taking into account the works of key literary figures of this period, including Milton and Shakespeare.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2010
ISBN
9780230107663
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
European Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction: Debt and Deconstruction
  5. 1 "Howe is the Worlde Chaunged": The Emergence of Usury
  6. 2 The Aristotelian and Biblical Critiques
  7. 3 The Theological Critique
  8. 4 "Strange Metamorphosis": The Death of Hospitality
  9. 5 Magic, Labor, and Allegory: Imagining the Usurer
  10. 6 "Tramplers of Time": Alchemists, Goldsmiths, and Sodomites
  11. Afterword
  12. Notes
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index