Kjaer, Lars
(ed.)
Strenga, Gustavs
(ed.)
Editorial: Bloomsbury
Número de páginas: 272 págs. 23.4 x 15.6 cm
Fecha de edición: 18-04-2024
EAN: 9781350186101
ISBN: 978-1-350-18610-1
Precio (sin IVA): 38,77 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 40,32 €
Drawing on examples from both medieval and early modern Europe, the authors from the UK and across Europe explore the craftsmanship involved in the production of gifts and the use of exotic objects and animals, from elephant bones to polar bears and 'living' holy objects, to communicate power, class and allegiance. Gifts were publicly given, displayed and worn and so the book explores the ways in which, as tangible objects, gifts could help to construct religious and social worlds. But the beauty and material richness of the gift could also provoke anxieties.