Gift-giving and materiality in Europe, 1300-1600 : gifts as objects edited by Lars Kjær and Gustavs Strenga - London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2022. ©2022. - 1 online resource (273 pages)

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Cover -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: The matter of the gift Lars Kjær -- 1 'With this rynge': The materiality and meaning of the late medieval marriage ring Anna Boeles Rowland -- 2 Of ivory, gold and elephants: Materiality and agency of pre-modern chairs as gifts Sabine Sommerer -- 3 Gifts and conflicts: Objects given during the entry of Archbishop Silvester Stodewescher in the Riga Cathedral (1449) Gustavs Strenga -- 4 'The Polar Winds have driven me to the conquest of the Treasure in the form of the much-desired relic.' (Re)moving relics and performing gift-exchange between early modern Tuscany and Lithuania Ruth Sargent Noyes -- 5 'The gift' and the living image: Exchange between human and nonhuman actors in fifteenth- to sixteenth-century Prato Mads Vedel Heilskov -- 6 Demoniac's gratitude: Corporeality and materiality of votive offerings to St Nicholas of Tolentino (1325-1550) Sari Katajala-Peltomaa -- 7 Alms boxes and charity: Giving to the poor after the Lutheran Reformation in Denmark Poul Grinder-Hansen -- 8 Taken objects and the formation of social groups in Hamburg, Gdańsk and Lübeck Philipp Höhn -- Gifts: Concluding Remarks Miri Rubin -- Index.

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1300-1600


Geschenk


Europa



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