Money, Morality, and Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 8
Notes on the Contributors......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 16
Introduction......Page 18
PART I DEFINING THE PLAYERS......Page 28
1 “Nerehand nothyng to pay or to take”: Poverty, Labor, and Money in Four Towneley Plays......Page 30
2 The Incivility of Judas: “Manifest” Usury as a Metaphor for the “Infamy of Fact”’ (infamia facti)......Page 50
3 The Devil’s Evangelists? Moneychangers in Flemish Urban Society......Page 70
PART II QUESTIONS OF VALUE......Page 86
4 Whores as Shopkeepers: Money and Sexuality in Aretino’s Ragionamenti......Page 88
5 The Sound of Money in Late Medieval Music......Page 104
6 Anxieties of Currency Exchange in Middleton and Rowley’s The Changeling......Page 126
PART III WEALTH AND CHRISTIAN IDEALS......Page 144
7 “To honor God and enrich Florence in things spiritual and temporal”: Piety, Commerce, and Art in the Humiliati Order......Page 146
8 Trading Values: Negotiating Masculinity in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe......Page 172
9 Abigail Mathieu’s Civic Charity: Social Reform and the Search for Personal Immortality......Page 214
Bibliography......Page 234
Index......Page 260