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The Languages of Gift in the Early Middle Ages (Hardcover)
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The Languages of Gift in the Early Middle Ages (Hardcover)
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This pioneering volume illuminates the practice of giving, endowing
and exchanging gifts in the early Middle Ages, from Anglo-Saxon
England to the Islamic world. Focusing especially on the language
associated with medieval gift giving, this important new work
examines how people visualized and thought about gift giving and,
importantly, how they distinguished between the giving of gifts and
other social, economic, political and religious exchanges. The
authors demonstrate that gift giving was already complex,
distinctive and sometimes contentious before the twelfth century
and operated within a broad international context. They draw from
the sources a deeper understanding of the early Middle Ages by
looking at real cases and real people: peasants, the elderly and
women, as well as elites. The culture of medieval gift has often
been treated as archaic and exotic; this book, by contrast, reveals
people going about their lives as individuals in down-to-earth and
sometimes familiar ways.
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