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"Hawkes' brilliant anatomy of early modern usury illuminates a keyword of the period. Revealing usury's connections to magic and witchcraft, sodomy, idolatry, unnatural birth, epicurean self-indulgence, consumer desire, and the death of hospitality, Hawkes argues that early modern people saw usury as unambiguously evil. The Culture of Usury in Renaissance England evokes a world in which making money breed was assumed to destroy the soul and the possibility for just and charitable action. Learned, impassioned, and forcefully written, Hawkes' book uses the past to query many of the assumptions that govern contemporary life. A tour de force." - Jean Howard, George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University and Chair of the Department of English and Comparative Literature
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Book Title: The Culture of Usury in Renaissance England
Authors: David Hawkes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230107663
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-61626-4Published: 21 June 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-37978-1Published: 21 June 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-10766-3Published: 24 May 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 200
Topics: European Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, History of Britain and Ireland, Finance, general, British and Irish Literature