The Languages of Gift in the Early Middle Ages
- Editors:
- Wendy Davies, University College London
- Paul Fouracre, University of Manchester
- Date Published: January 2014
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107698789
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This book is a collection of original essays on gift in the early Middle Ages, from Anglo-Saxon England to the Islamic world. Focusing on the languages of gift, the essays reveal how early medieval people visualized and thought about gift, and how they distinguished between the giving of gifts and other forms of social, economic, political and religious exchange. The same team, largely, that produced the widely cited The Settlement of Disputes in Early Medieval Europe (Cambridge University Press, 1986) has again collaborated in a collective effort that harnesses individual expertise in order to draw from the sources a deeper understanding of the early Middle Ages by looking at real cases, that is at real people, whether peasant or emperor. The culture of medieval gift has often been treated as archaic and exotic; in this book, by contrast, we see people going about their lives in individual, down-to-earth and sometimes familiar ways.
Read more- Contributions from acknowledged experts in the field, covering a range of countries with a wide range of source materials for an international overview of the culture of gift
- Substantial glossary of all technical and medieval terms used, to assist those unfamiliar with the subject matter
- Introductions and conclusions draw together the common themes within the book, providing an in-depth understanding of the fundamental aspects of early medieval culture
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- Date Published: January 2014
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107698789
- length: 322 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.43kg
- contains: 13 b/w illus. 5 maps
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1. Introduction Janet L. Nelson
2. Giving to God in the mass: the experience of the Offertory David Ganz
3. Gifts and prayers: the visualization of gift-giving in Byzantium and the mosaics at Hagia Sophia Leslie Brubaker
4. The use of the term 'beneficium' in Frankish sources: a society based on favours? Paul Fouracre
5. The gifts of Wearmouth and Jarrow Ian N. Wood
6. The settings of the gift in the reign of Charlemagne Janet L. Nelson
7. The queen of the Franks offers gifts to the caliph al-Muktafi' Ann Christys
8. Reciprocal gifts on Mount Athos in the tenth and eleventh centuries Rosemary Morris
9. Compulsory gift-exchange in Lombard Italy, 650–1150 Chris Wickham
10. When gift is sale: reciprocities and commodities in tenth-century Christian Iberia Wendy Davies
11. Conclusion Chris Wickham
Glossary
Bibliography
Index.
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