The claims of poverty [electronic resource] : literature, culture, and ideology in late medieval England / Kate Crassons.

Forms of need: the allegorical representation of poverty in Piers Plowman
Poverty exposed: the evangelical and epistemological ideal of Pierce the Ploughman's crede
"Clamerous" beggars and "nedi" knights: poverty and Wycliffite reform
The costs of sanctity: Margery Kempe and the Franciscan imaginary
Communal identities: performing poverty, charity, and labor in York's Corpus Christi theater
Nickel and dimed: poverty polemic medieval and modern.