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  3. The Medieval Gift and the Classical Tradition
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      10 August 2019
      29 August 2019
      ISBN:
      9781108539579
      9781108424028
      9781108439329
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108539579
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.47kg, 234 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.36kg, 236 Pages
      • Subjects:
      British History 1066-1450, History
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series (114)
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    Subjects:
    British History 1066-1450, History
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series (114)
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    This interdisciplinary study explores how classical ideals of generosity influenced the writing and practice of gift giving in medieval Europe. In assuming that medieval gift giving was shaped by oral 'folk models', historians have traditionally followed in the footsteps of social anthropologists and sociologists such as Marcel Mauss and Pierre Bourdieu. This first in-depth investigation into the influence of the classical ideals of generosity and gift giving in medieval Europe reveals to the contrary how historians have underestimated the impact of classical literature and philosophy on medieval culture and ritual. Focusing on the idea of the gift expounded in the classical texts read most widely in the Middle Ages, including Seneca the Younger's De beneficiis and Cicero's De officiis, Lars Kjær investigates how these ideas were received, adapted and utilised by medieval writers across a range of genres, and how they influenced the practice of generosity.

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