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The Languages of Gift in the Early Middle Ages (Paperback)
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The Languages of Gift in the Early Middle Ages (Paperback)
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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.
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