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Texts, Power, and Gifts in Context
Cohen, Esther de Jong, Mayke
ISBN: 9789004117280
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Brill Academic Publishers
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This volume deals with shifts and changes that took place during the Middle Ages when things, or ideas, or writings, were transferred from time to time, place to place, or one ideological realm to another. The same objects, ideas, or texts changed their meaning, impact, or symbolic value according to different contexts. The thirteen papers, written by leading experts, investigate the authority attributed to texts and their canonization in different contexts…
This volume deals with shifts and changes that took place during the Middle Ages when things, or ideas, or writings, were transferred from time to time, place to place, or one ideological realm to another. The same objects, ideas or texts changed their meaning, impact or symbolic value according to different contexts. These papers investigate the authority attributed to texts and their canonization in different contexts; the shifting uses and meaning of gifts, from honorable instruments in the settlement of disputes to corruption and bribery; and the transition of violence and power from relationships between equals to a tool for the maintenance of hierarchies.
| ISBN | 9004117288 | | Volumes | 1 | | ISBN13 | 9789004117280
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 686 | | Publisher | Brill Academic Publishers | | Published in | Leiden | | Imprint | BRILL ACADEMIC PUB | | Series editor | Cohen, E. | | Format | Hardback | | Series ISSN | 11 | | Publication date | 01 Dec 2000 | | Series title | Cultures, Beliefs & Traditions: Mediaeval & Early Modern Peoples S. | | Library of Congress | 2001274399 | | Height (mm) | 241 | | DEWEY | 909.07 | | Width (mm) | 165 | | Pages | 284 | |
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| | | Abbreviations | | | | | | Introduction by Esther Cohen | | 1 | | Pt. 1 | | Transformations: Text, Scripture, and Authority in the Early Middle Ages | | | | 1 | | Reflections on Canonization and the Authority of the Written Word in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: By Way of Comment by Marco Mostert | | 13 | | 2 | | Holy Scripture and the Transmission of Knowledge in Early Islam: The Inception of Arabic Linguistic Studies by Monique Bernards | | 25 | | 3 | | Martin of Braga's De correctione rusticorum and its Uses in Frankish Gaul by Yitzhak Hen | | 35 | | 4 | | Religious Instruction in the Frankish Kingdoms by Rob Meens | | 51 | | 5 | | Exegesis for an Empress by Mayke de Jong | | 69 | | 6 | | The Varying Roles of Biblical Testimonies in the Carolingian Image Controversies by Thomas F. X. Noble | | 101 | | Pt. 2 | | Transformations: Gifts, Violence, and Bribes, High and Late Middle Ages | | | | 7 | | The Medieval Gift as Agent of Social Bonding and Political Power: A Comparative Approach by Arnoud-Jan Bijsterveld | | 123 | | 8 | | Gifts And Simony by Timothy Reuter | | 157 | | 9 | | The Politics of Exchange: Gifts, Fiefs, and Feudalism by Stephen D. White | | 169 | | 10 | | Presenting Respect in the Eleventh Century: Odo of Blaison and the Canons of St.-Lezin by Hendrik Teunis | | 189 | | 11 | | From Peace to Power: The Study of Disputes in Medieval France by Stephen D. White | | 203 | | 12 | | Accountancies and Arcana: Registering the Gift in Late Medieval Cities by Valentin Groebner | | 219 | | 13 | | Pruning Peasants: Private War and Maintaining the Lords' Peace in Late Medieval Germany by Gadi Algazi | | 245 | | | | Index | | 275 |
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