Memory, State, and Past Remembering in East Central and North... - 9781032940007

Name: Memory, State, and Past Remembering in East Central and North... - 9781032940007
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Analysing the mechanisms that led to the formation of early state forms, this book defines the role of gifts, religious belief systems, prestige, and reciprocity within segmentary and chiefdom societies in East and Northern Europe.\nVolume II explores the concept and the idea of memory, commemoration, and material culture related to the power of memory and functioning of medieval state observed in sources. This book discusses how gift and elite exchange gained significant importance over the early and high middle ages and encompassed, at the level of symbolic communication, the Christian perspective on power rituals as well as the sacred dimension of its legitimisation and manifestation.\nThis book provides an interdisciplinary study of medieval elites, Saints, and Kings through material\n\nMemory, State, and Past Remembering in East Central and Northern Europe\nInterdisciplinary Studies in Medieval Culture, Volume II\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is availabl;