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Author Heal, Felicity, author.

Title The power of gifts : gift exchange in Early Modern England / Felicity Heal.

Publication Info. Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2014.
©2014
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Edition First edition.
Description 1 online resource (vi, 258 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary This study considers the nature of gift-giving in early-modern England - looking at what gifts were, how they were offered and received, and what did they mean politically under the different monarchs of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Contents Society and its gifts. What is a gift? ; Gifts small and great ; Occasions and seasons -- The politics of giving. The politics of gift-exchange under the Tudors ; The early Stuarts and courtly gifting ; Sovereign gifts : the crown and diplomatic exchange ; Bribes and benefits.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Ceremonial exchange -- England -- History -- 16th century.
Ceremonial exchange.
England.
History.
Chronological Term 16th century
Subject Ceremonial exchange -- England -- History -- 17th century.
Chronological Term 17th century
Subject Gifts -- England -- History -- 16th century.
Gifts.
Gifts -- England -- History -- 17th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Customs & Traditions.
Gåvor -- historia.
Traditioner -- historia.
Hovliv -- historia.
Kulturhistoria.
Chronological Term 1500-1699
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Heal, Felicity. Power of gifts. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2014 9780199542956 (OCoLC)898041512
ISBN 9780191020131 (electronic book)
0191020133 (electronic book)
9780191780646 (ebook)
0191780642
9780191780646
9780199542956
0199542953

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