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...Anthony Cutler Duke University Press 2008 a Significant Gifts: Patterns of Exchange in Late Antique, Byzantine, and Early Islamic Diplomacy...

...Russell E. Martin Duke University Press 2008 a Gifts for the Bride: Dowries, Diplomacy, and Marriage Politics in Muscovy Russell E. Martin...

... of Fletcher’s embassy are preoccupied with diplomatic ritual, dedicating ample space to the choreography of official meetings, status symbols, gifts, acts of consumption, and corporeal semiotics. This essay examines two instances of breakdown in diplomatic protocol associated with Fletcher’s embassy...

..., that brings a person to the God who has established God as the beatifying end of the human person; and, the virtues that are most conducive to that life with God are, radically, the gift of God, due to divine initiative. Although less immediately obvious, Aquinas’s virtue ethics is also thoroughly...

...Natasha Korda Thomas Dekker’s The Shoemaker’s Holiday (1599) is filled with shoes. Every aspect of shoes’ social lives is enacted onstage: they are manufactured before our eyes, bought and sold, given as gifts, displayed as signs of status, and flaunted as objects of fashion. This essay considers...

... conception of social processes. Finally, I will conclude with some brief comments on alternative Christian conceptions of sacrifice which do not succumb to the modern logic of gift and exchange. Receiving the sacrifice No other sin, according to Luther, not even “manslaughter, theft, murder or adultery...

... complex and interactive over time. In this instance the new queen is reported to have stopped repeat- edly along the route to hear and respond to speeches and poetic recitations, and to receive gifts, advice, and praise. Guild members dressed in their livery lined...

... knowledge that God has given me in the art of writing and portraying.”6 Inglis argues that her writing amounts to “a portrait of the Christian Religion,” formed through the gifts that God has given her to use pen and pencil: honoring the divine origins of her own “small knowledge” actually requires...

.... As David Graeber bluntly summarizes, our typical “account of mon- etary history is precisely backwards. We did not begin with barter, discover money, and then eventually develop credit systems. It happened precisely the other way around.”17 Within such a milieu, informal gift-­giving econo- mies...

..., generously and openly a courtly gift—but I dare not say which one— which would make the prison you keep me in easier. VI. Lady, I love you truly, freely, and in good faith, and I declare myself to be your man whoever asks me to whom I belong.] Such references...

... to overcome it, while also hinting at the universality of human experience. The form of the list similarly undergirds the third section of the poem, the catalogue of gifts, but with a strikingly different affective resonance. Lines 58–98 move to a consideration of the various good fortunes available...

... / Laudian Feminism and Little Gidding  81 Mary her presents (Story Books, 176).24 At this point, the political import of what is unfolding becomes unmistakable, since Mary rejects the proposal out of hand as tantamount to corruption. To accept gifts would compromise her position as Mother from...

... of the arts. Art historians have created a veritable subfield of new work on the gift exchanges that figured in almost every encounter between diplomats and heads of state. We have a better understanding than ever before of the choreography of giving, receiving, regifting, displaying, admiring, discussing...

... maintenance for his house, if thereupon his wife shall gather that he is very rich, and accordingly be very bountifull in her gifts, she may soone goe beyond his ability, and so increase his debt” (V5r). Downham’s ideal of Christian communion and his definition of benevolence argue that hospitality toward...

... essay “Significant Gifts,” the gifts presented, exchanged, and redistributed in the course of ambas- sadorial encounters constitute an important but understudied chapter in the parallel histories of art and premodern “international” politics. Despite ample records documenting the importance...

..., Reason also provides an important detail to consider when thinking about Mede and her geneal- ogy. Not only does she try to get grace and mercy for wrongdoers by giving gifts, but she also uses “glosynge speche.”16 Her glossing speech, the smooth or deceitful talk, comes from Fauel her father...

.... The first of Jasper Heywood's three translations is dedicated to Queen Elizabeth and was supposedly given to her as a New Year's gift. 2 Heywood describes himself in this dedication as a “studient in the universite of Oxford” and as a “scholler” (A2r). Accordingly, what he has to offer is not material...

..., but the same Spirit” (XXI.228a; 1 Cor. 12:4). Through these gifts Grace enables what has been conspicuously absent throughout the poem: a com- plex polity living as a community seeking to embody the precepts of Christ disclosed in his redemptive actions so powerfully demonstrated in the previ- ous passus...

... Studies / 33.2 / 2003 urrection. Many members in one body (1 Cor. 12), the Church is endowed with the gifts of Christ and the Holy Spirit, gifts unfolded in time. It receives the Christian Scriptures and appropriate hermeneutics. It receives the virtues and sacraments together with “presthoed” (XXI...

... Inglis’s miniature presentation manuscripts, given as presti- gious gifts to royal and noble patrons, seem to be far removed from Pros- pero’s unmaterializing (but, we assume, printed) volumes. Produced by a specifically female agency exercised through gift exchange, and not created by a machine for any...