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The Medieval Gift and the Classical Tradition - Ideals and the Performance of Generosity in Medieval England, 1100-1300 (Paperback)
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The Medieval Gift and the Classical Tradition - Ideals and the Performance of Generosity in Medieval England, 1100-1300 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
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This interdisciplinary study explores how classical ideals of
generosity influenced the writing and practice of gift giving in
medieval Europe. In assuming that medieval gift giving was shaped
by oral 'folk models', historians have traditionally followed in
the footsteps of social anthropologists and sociologists such as
Marcel Mauss and Pierre Bourdieu. This first in-depth investigation
into the influence of the classical ideals of generosity and gift
giving in medieval Europe reveals to the contrary how historians
have underestimated the impact of classical literature and
philosophy on medieval culture and ritual. Focusing on the idea of
the gift expounded in the classical texts read most widely in the
Middle Ages, including Seneca the Younger's De beneficiis and
Cicero's De officiis, Lars Kjaer investigates how these ideas were
received, adapted and utilised by medieval writers across a range
of genres, and how they influenced the practice of generosity.
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