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Gift-giving and materiality in Europe, 1300-1600 : gifts as objects.
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- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gifts--Europe--History--To 1500.
- Gifts--Europe--History--16th century.
- Gifts--Europe--History--17th century.
- Material culture--Europe--History--To 1500.
- Material culture--Europe--History--16th century.
- Material culture--Europe--History--17th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Bloomsbury, 2022.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Introduction: The matter of the gift Lars Kjær
- 1 'With this rynge': The materiality and meaning of the late medieval marriage ring Anna Boeles Rowland
- 2 Of ivory, gold and elephants: Materiality and agency of pre-modern chairs as gifts Sabine Sommerer
- 3 Gifts and conflicts: Objects given during the entry of Archbishop Silvester Stodewescher in the Riga Cathedral (1449) Gustavs Strenga
- 4 'The Polar Winds have driven me to the conquest of the Treasure in the form of the much-desired relic.' (Re)moving relics and performing gift-exchange between early modern Tuscany and Lithuania Ruth Sargent Noyes
- 5 'The gift' and the living image: Exchange between human and nonhuman actors in fifteenth- to sixteenth-century Prato Mads Vedel Heilskov
- 6 Demoniac's gratitude: Corporeality and materiality of votive offerings to St Nicholas of Tolentino (1325-1550) Sari Katajala-Peltomaa
- 7 Alms boxes and charity: Giving to the poor after the Lutheran Reformation in Denmark Poul Grinder-Hansen
- 8 Taken objects and the formation of social groups in Hamburg, Gdańsk and Lübeck Philipp Höhn
- Gifts: Concluding Remarks Miri Rubin
- Index
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Tom Monahan Memorial Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781350183704
- 1350183709
- Publisher Number:
- 99994298785
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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