Gift-Giving and Materiality in Europe, 1300-1600

Gift-Giving and Materiality in Europe, 1300-1600
Author :
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 273
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781350183704
ISBN-13 : 1350183709
Rating : 4/5 (709 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Gift-Giving and Materiality in Europe, 1300-1600 by : Lars Kjaer

Download or read book Gift-Giving and Materiality in Europe, 1300-1600 written by Lars Kjaer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gift-giving played an important role in political, social and religious life in medieval and early modern Europe. This volume explores an under-examined and often-overlooked aspect of this phenomenon: the material nature of the gift. Drawing on examples from both medieval and early modern Europe, the authors from the UK and across Europe explore the craftsmanship involved in the production of gifts and the use of exotic objects and animals, from elephant bones to polar bears and 'living' holy objects, to communicate power, class and allegiance. Gifts were publicly given, displayed and worn and so the book explores the ways in which, as tangible objects, gifts could help to construct religious and social worlds. But the beauty and material richness of the gift could also provoke anxieties. Classical and Christian authorities agreed that, in gift-giving, it was supposed to be the thought that counted and consequently wealth and grandeur raised worries about greed and corruption: was a valuable ring payment for sexual services or a token of love and a promise of marriage? Over three centuries, Gift-Giving and Materiality in Europe, 1300-1600: Gifts as Objects reflects on the possibilities, practicalities and concerns raised by the material character of gifts.


Gift-Giving and Materiality in Europe, 1300-1600 Related Books

Gift-Giving and Materiality in Europe, 1300-1600
Language: en
Pages: 273
Authors: Lars Kjaer
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-09-08 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Gift-giving played an important role in political, social and religious life in medieval and early modern Europe. This volume explores an under-examined and oft
Gift-Giving and Materiality in Europe, 1300-1600
Language: en
Pages: 273
Authors: Lars Kjaer
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-09-08 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Gift-giving played an important role in political, social and religious life in medieval and early modern Europe. This volume explores an under-examined and oft
Cosmos and Materiality in Early Modern Prague
Language: en
Pages: 257
Authors: Suzanna Ivanič
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In the seventeenth century Prague was the setting for a complex and shifting spiritual world. By studying the city's material culture, this book presents a bold
The gift of narrative in medieval England
Language: en
Pages: 255
Authors: Nicholas Perkins
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-02-23 - Publisher: Manchester University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This invigorating study places medieval romance narrative in dialogue with theories and practices of gift and exchange, opening new approaches to questions of s
The Dutch East India Company in Early Modern Japan
Language: en
Pages: 188
Authors: Michael Laver
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-04-16 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Michael Laver examines how the giving of exotic gifts in early modern Japan facilitated Dutch trade by ascribing legitimacy to the shogunal government and by pl