Chaucer's Gifts

Mae Robert Epstein yn defnyddio theori anthropoleg economaidd i archwilio straeon The Canterbury Tales, gan ddangos bod cyfnewid rhoddion mor gyffredin â phrynu nwyddau ym myd Chaucer, a bod perthnasau cymdeithasol mor bwysig ag arian a marchnata.

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.