bokomslag Gift-Giving and Materiality in Europe, 1300-1600
Historia

Gift-Giving and Materiality in Europe, 1300-1600

Dr Lars Kjaer Dr Gustavs Strenga

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  • 272 sidor
  • 2024
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.
  • Författare: Dr Lars Kjaer, Dr Gustavs Strenga
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781350186101
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 272
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2024-04-18
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Academic