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Acknowledgements                                                                                    Introduction: Chaucer's Commodities, Chaucer's Gifts                       1 The Franklin's Potlatch and the Plowman's Creed: The Gift in the General Prologue                                                                            2 The Lack of Interest in the Shipman's Tale: Chaucer and the Social Theory of the Gift                                                                    3 Giving Evil: Excess and Equivalence in the Fabliau                           4 The Exchange of Women and the Gender of the Gift5 Sacred Commerce: Clerics, Money and the Economy of Salvation                                                                              6 'Fy on a thousand pound!' Debt and the Possibility  of Generosity in the Franklin's Tale Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Acknowledgements Introduction: Chaucer's Commodities, Chaucer's Gifts 1 The Franklin's Potlatch and the Plowman's Creed: The Gift in the General Prologue 2 The Lack of Interest in the Shipman's Tale: Chaucer and the Social Theory of the Gift 3 Giving Evil: Excess and Equivalence in the Fabliau 4 The Exchange of Women and the Gender of the Gift5 Sacred Commerce: Clerics, Money and the Economy of Salvation 6 'Fy on a thousand pound!' Debt and the Possibility of Generosity in the Franklin's Tale Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Chaucer's Gifts applies the theoretical approaches of economic anthropology to the Canterbury Tales, to show that in Chaucer's world the exchange of gifts is as prevalent as the purchase of commodities, and that social relations are as important as money and the market

Chaucer's gifts : exchange and value in the Canterbury tales