The Power of Gifts: Gift Exchange in Early Modern England
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Gifts are always with us: we use them positively to display affection and show gratitude for favours; we suspect that others give and accept them as douceurs and bribes. The gift also performed these roles in early modern English culture: and assumed a more significant role because networks of informal support and patronage were central to social and political behaviour. Favours, and their proper acknowledgement, were preoccupations of the age of...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0199542953
ISBN13:9780199542956
Release Date:January 2015
Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Length:272 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"
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