Gift-giving and materiality in Europe, 1300-1600 : gifts as objects /: gifts as objects. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: [edited by] Lars Kjaer and Gustavs Strenga.
• Editors: Strenga, Gustavs; Kjaer, Lars
• Contents: List of Illustrations -- 1. Introduction: The Matter of the Gift / Lars Kjaer (New College of the Humanities, UK) -- 2. Of Ivory, Gold and Elephants: Materiality and Agency of Pre-modern Chairs as Gifts / Sabine Sommerer (University of Zurich, Switzerland) -- 3. Rituals, Objects and Conflicts: Gifts Given during the Entry of Archbishop Silvester Stodewescher in the Riga Cathedral (1449) / Gustavs Strenga (Tallinn University, Estonia) -- 4. (Re)moving Relics and Performing Gift Exchange between Early Modern Tuscany and Lithuania / Ruth S. Noyes (National Museum of Denmark, Denmark) -- 5. Gift-giving and the Cult of Living Matter in Late Medieval Europe / Mads Heilskov (EHESS, France) -- 6. With this Rynge': The Materiality and Meaning of Late Medieval Marriage Rings / Anna Boeles Rowland (University of Leuven, Netherlands) -- 7. Votive Offerings as Communication: Gift Exchange with Saint Nicholas of Tolentino (14th-16th Centuries) / Sari Katajala-Peltomaa (Tampere University, Finland) -- 8. Alms Boxes and Charity: Giving to the Poor after the Lutheran Reformation in Denmark / Poul Grinder-Hansen (National Museum of Denmark, Denmark) -- 9. Beyond Materiality: Circulating Objects and the Semantics of Violent Transactions in Late Medieval Baltic Urban Spaces / Philipp Höhn (University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany) -- 10. Conclusion / Miri Rubin (Queen Mary University of London, UK) -- Index.
• Publisher Details: London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource (288 pages)
• Subjects: 150; Gifts -- Psychology; Gifts -- History; Gifts -- Religious aspects; Mindfulness (Psychology); Cadeaux -- Psychologie; Cadeaux -- Histoire; Cadeaux -- Aspect religieux; Pleine conscience (Psychologie); Gifts; Gifts -- Psychology; Gifts -- Religious aspects; Mindfulness (Psychology); Electronic books; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350183728; 1350183725; 9781350183711; 1350183717
• Related ISBNs: 9781350186101; 9781350183698
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.