Negotiating the gift : Pre-modern figurations of exchange /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros autores o Colaboradores: Jussen, Bernhard (ed.), Algazi, Gadi (ed.), Groebner, Valentin (ed.), Signori, Gabriela, Geary, Patrick J., Nagel, Alexander, Flaig, Egon, White, Stephen D., Wagner-Hasel, Beate, Rosenwein, Barbara H., Magnani S. Christen, Eliana, Harbsmeier, Michael, Kuchenbuch, Ludolf
Formato: Libro
Lengua:inglés
Datos de publicación: Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2003.
Temas:
Descripción Física:419 p.
ISBN:3525351860
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Doing things with gifts / Gadi Algazi
  • Is Loyalty a favor? or : Why gifts cannot oblige an emperor / Egon Flaig
  • Service for fiefs or fiefs for service : The Politics of reciprocity / Stephen D. White
  • Feigned reciprocities : Lords, peasants, and the afterlife of late medieval social strategies / Gadi Algazi
  • Gift exchange and social science modeling : The Limitations of a construct / Patrick J. Geary
  • Egoistic exchange and altruistic gift : On the roots of Marcel Mauss theory of the gift / Beate Wagner-Hasel
  • Religious discourses of the gift in the middle ages : Semantic evidences [Second to twelfth centuries] / Bernhard Jussen
  • Porcus donativus : Language use and gifting in seigneurial records between the eighth and the twelfth centuries / Ludolf Kuchenbuch
  • The City guard's salute : Legal and illegal, public and private gifts in the swiss confederation around 1500 / Valentin Groebner
  • Transforming things and Persons : The Gift pro anima in the eleventh and twelfth centuries / Eliana Magnani S. Christen
  • Family traditions : Moral economy and memorial gift exchange in the urban world of the late fifteenth-century / Gabriela Signori
  • Art as gift : Liberal art and religious reform in the renaissance / Alexander Nagel
  • Francia and Polynesia : Rethinking anthropological approaches / Barbara H. Rosenwein
  • Gifts and discoveries : Gifts exchange in early modern narratives of exploration and discovery / Michael Harbsmeier