{"product_id":"liquid-assets-dangerous-gifts-presents-and-politics-at-the-end-of-the-middle-ages-the-middle-age-series-9780812236507","title":"Liquid Assets Dangerous Gifts Presents and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A fascinating study of the movements and ambivalent meanings of gifts in the political culture of the fifteenth and early sixteenth century... Valentin Groebner's book ... provides us with a new way of understanding the meanings and uses of 'corruption.'\"-Natalie Zemon Davis, Sixteenth Century Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is an important book, highly original, innovative, and convincing. Groebner's scholarship is wide-ranging and superb.\" * David Nirenberg, Johns Hopkins University *\u003cbr\u003e\"A fascinating study of the movements and ambivalent meanings of gifts in the political culture of the fifteenth and early sixteenth century. . . . Valentin Groebner's book thus brings us a richly drawn portrait of the deep values and practices of republican political culture, and provides us with a new way of understanding the meanings and uses of 'corruption,' a subject of great currency in our world today.\" * Natalie Zemon Davis, \u003ci\u003eSixteenth Century Journal\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Groebner bridges the traditional divide between elite and popular histories, enriching traditional German administrative history with a wide-ranging infusion of social and cultural history.\" * \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"A fascinating book on a fascinating subject.\" * \u003ci\u003eThe Medieval Review\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Speaking of Gifts\u003cbr\u003e 1. Liquids and Pronouncements\u003cbr\u003e 2. Offices\u003cbr\u003e 3. Manners of Speaking\u003cbr\u003e 4. Pensions\u003cbr\u003e 5. Pensions in Basel, 1501-1522\u003cbr\u003e 6. Instruments\u003cbr\u003e Appendix\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MT - University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038401364311,"sku":"9780812236507","price":52.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812236507.jpg?v=1750940215","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/liquid-assets-dangerous-gifts-presents-and-politics-at-the-end-of-the-middle-ages-the-middle-age-series-9780812236507","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}