Liquid Assets, Dangerous Gifts: Presents and Politics at the End of the Middle Ages

by ValentinGroebner (Author), PamelaE.Selwyn (Translator)

• New

  Hardcover
  2002

  $77.41

  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