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

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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