Explores how classical ideals of generosity influenced the writing and practice of gift giving in medieval Europe.

This interdisciplinary study explores how classical ideals of generosity influenced the writing and practice of gift giving in medieval Europe. In assuming that

Gift-giving played an important role in political, social and religious life in medieval and early modern Europe. This volume explores an under-examined and oft

The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has been imitated, resisted, misunderstood, and reworked by every culture that followed. In this volume, some five hundred

This wide-ranging collection of essays, written in honor of J.B. Trapp, looks at some of the central problems in the interpretation of post-classical Latin poet