The Languages of Gift in the Early Middle Ages |
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| Editor:
| Davies, Wendy
Fouracre, Paul |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-51517-7 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2010 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $97.99 |
Book Description:
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This pioneering volume explores how people in the early medieval world visualized and thought about gift. The culture of medieval gift has often been treated as archaic and exotic; this book, by contrast, reveals people across the globe going about their lives in individual, down-to-earth and sometimes familiar ways.
This pioneering volume explores how people in the early medieval world visualized and thought about gift. The culture of medieval gift has often been treated as archaic and exotic; this book, by contrast, reveals people across the globe going about their lives in individual, down-to-earth and sometimes familiar ways.