At play in the tavern : signs, coins, and bodies in the Middle Ages / Andrew Cowell.
1999
PQ155.T38 C68 1999 (Mapit)
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Title
At play in the tavern : signs, coins, and bodies in the Middle Ages / Andrew Cowell.
Author
Cowell, Andrew, 1963-
ISBN
0472110071 (acid-free paper)
9780472110070 (acid-free paper)
9780472110070 (acid-free paper)
Publication Details
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©1999.
Language
English
Description
270 pages ; 24 cm.
Call Number
PQ155.T38 C68 1999
Dewey Decimal Classification
840.9/355
Summary
"At Play in the Tavern is a study of the tavern, inn, and brothel in the literature of medieval France."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-264) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Charity, hospitality, and profit
Le jeu de Saint Nicolas and the poetics of the tavern
The moral economy of the tavern
Autobiography and folly
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.
Charity, hospitality, and profit
Le jeu de Saint Nicolas and the poetics of the tavern
The moral economy of the tavern
Autobiography and folly
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.