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Published on: 2015-01-06
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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 Erasmus, Shakespeare, and Hobbes. As in modern society, giving and receiving was complex and full of the potential for social damage. 'Almost nothing', men of the Renaissance learned from that great classical guide to morality, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, 'is more disgraceful than the fact that we do not know how either to give or receive benefits'. The Power of Gifts is about those gifts and benefits - what they were, and how they were offered and received in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It shows that the mode of giving, as well as what was given, was crucial to social bonding and political success.The volume moves from a general consideration of the nature of the gift to an exploration of the politics of giving. In the latter chapters some of the well-known rituals of English court life - the New Year ceremony, royal progresses, diplomatic missions - are viewed through the prism of gift-exchange. Gifts to monarchs or their ministers could focus attention on the donor, those from the crown could offer some assurance of favour. These fundamentals remained the same throughout the century and a half before the Civil War, but the attitude of individual monarchs altered specific behaviour. Elizabeth expected to be wooed with gifts and dispensed benefits largely for service rendered, James I modelled giving as the largesse of the Renaissance prince, Charles I's gift-exchanges focused on the art collecting of his coterie. And always in both politics and the law courts there was the danger that gifts would be corroded, morphing from acceptable behaviour into bribes and corruption. The Power of Gifts explores prescriptive literature, pamphlets, correspondence, legal cases and financial records, to illuminate social attitudes and behaviour through a rich series of examples and case-studies. Agriculture and Consumer Protection: Home Addressing wildlife risks add to urgency of global campaign to eradicate Peste des Petits Ruminants by 2030 NECO Inc . - 3D Engineering Technology Prototyping 3D CAD Services Streamline Design Process. Neco Inc. of Denver Colorado provides 3D Computer Aided Design and support services primarily allied to the ... The History of Hypnosis The history of hypnosis is full of contradictions. On the one hand a history of hypnosis is a bit like a history of breathing. Like breathing hypnosis is an ... Biblical Magi - Wikipedia Biblical account. Traditional nativity scenes depict three "kings" visiting the infant Jesus on the night of his birth in a manger accompanied by the shepherds and ... Send Gifts to USA - International Gift Shop Giftsnideas Information About Send Gifts to Usa. How to send gifts to USA? Order Online and Send Gifts to the US. Send gifts to USA residents easily with the help of GiftsnIdeas! Edward VI of England - Wikipedia Edward was born on 12 October 1537 in his mother's room inside Hampton Court Palace in Middlesex. He was the son of King Henry VIII by his third wife Jane Seymour. Scripophily.com - Old Stock Certificates and Company Stock ... Scripophily.com and Old Company Research Press Releases. See Stock Certificate Expert Bob Kerstein CEO Scripophily.com discuss Stock Certificates in Bloomberg the ... McCormick-Allum Co. Contact. McCormick-Allum Co. Inc. 165 Stafford Street Springfield MA 01104. Tel: (413) 737-1196 Fax: (413) 731-7982 Etiquette 101: What Gives? - Cond Nast Traveler The exchange of gifts is a key part of many cultures but what you give is as important as how and when you give it. (So much for it being the thought that counts ... Early Modern Oxford British History Online EARLY MODERN OXFORD. Introduction p. 74. Development of the City p. 85. Economic History p. 101. City Government p. 121 (Charters p. 121; Freemen p. 126 ...
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