The Power of Gifts: Gift Exchange in Early Modern England

by Felicity Heal

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"