The Poem as Green Girdle:
Commercium
in
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
R. Allen Shoaf
Copyright © and Published 1984 (University Press of Florida)
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Front Matter
Dedication
Preface
Apparatus
Introduction
1. The Poem in Its Commercial Context
i.
The Commercial Vision of
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
ii.
Commerce and Christianity
iii.
The Commercial Situation of Fourteenth-Century England
2. The Commerce of Circumcision and the Role of Mediation
i.
New Year's Day and the Feast of the Circumcision
ii.
The Antiphon "O Admirabile Commercium" and Gawain's Circumcision
iii.
Sacramentum Mediatoris in carne venturi
3. Love's Relations: The Seduction of Gawain
i.
The Case against
Surquidré
ii.
What
Prys
Gawain?
iii.
The Law and Its Limits
iv.
From Price to Pricing
4. The New Covenant of the Green Girdle
i.
From Idols to Knots
ii.
Hony soyt qui mal pence
Appendix:
Vocabulary
of Commercial Words
Bibliography (1984)
Ancient and Medieval Works
Modern Works
Related Essay (1988)
The "Syngne of Surfet" and the Surfeit of Signs in
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
