1. Karl Marx, preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, trans. S.W. Ryazanskaya, ed. Maurice Dobb (New York: International Publishers, 1970), p. 6.
2. Friedrich Engels, Anti-Dühring, in Collected Works by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, 50 vols. (New York: International Publishers, 1987), 25
3. Karl Marx, Capital, trans. David Fernbach, 3 vols. (Harmondsworth,: Penguin, 1981), 3:959.
4. I am not the first to suggest that the Tale should be read in relation to these events. See, for example, Susan Crane, The Performance of Self: Ritual, Clothing, and Identity During the Hundred Years War (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002), pp. 21–38.
5. Michael Hanrahan, “‘A Straunge Succesour Sholde Take Youre Heritage’: ‘The Clerk’s Tale’ and the Crisis of Ricardian Rule,” Chaucer Review 35 (2001): 335–50.