The Face of Mammon: The Matter of Money in English Renaissance Literature

by David Landreth and David Landreth

Book Overview

Money talked in sixteenth-century England, as money still does today. But what the sixteenth century's gold and silver had to say for itself is strikingly different from the modern discourse of money. As David Landreth demonstrates in The Face of Mammon, the material and historical differences between the coins of the English Renaissance and today's paper and electronic money propel a distinctive and complex assessment of the relation between material...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190628227
• ISBN13: 9780190628222
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.1"