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2007, Journal of medieval history
This article treats the first entry of a new prince as the start of a series of exchanges between the prince and his subjects. On the occasion of an entry, gifts in all kind of forms, subsistence, luxury and symbolic goods, were exchanged with the intention of establishing a bond between the new ruler and the subjects. These gifts were not standardized in the Burgundian Low Countries. There was a wide range of gifts, from wine to silverware and from money to horses. Some gifts can be linked to the princely right of lodging in places he passed on his itinerary, whereas others refer to marks of honour offered by the host. However, not all gifts were given spontaneously, but were the result of a negotiating process between the town and the prince’s officials on the one hand and between the different towns of a principality on the other. Those officials benefited as well from entry gifts that trickled down to lower levels in the official hierarchy. Therefore, the gifts can be considered as personalized items in a bigger process of exchange and as a confirmation of the outcome of political negotiations.
The Journal of International Social Research / Uluslararası sosyal araştırmalar dergisi
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Gift-Giving and Materiality in Europe, 1300-1600: Gifts as Objects, ed. by Lars Kjær and Gustavs Strenga (London: Bloomsbury Academic,)
Gifts and conflicts: Objects given during the entry of Archbishop Silvester Stodewescher in the Riga Cathedral (1449)2022 •
Journal of Medieval History
“Transported as a Rare Object of Distinction: Gift Giving in the Inventory and Testament of Clémence of Hungary” Journal of Medieval History (2015): 208-28.2015 •
Late medieval royal women frequently journeyed from their homelands across Europe, marrying into other households. They maintained their ties and demonstrated their status by sending and receiving sumptuous objects. This study analyses the gift exchange surrounding Clémence of Hungary, a princess born in Angevin Naples, who married the Capetian king of France, Louis X. Her body was a diplomatic gift to the French court - one that brought the two families together. But the gift-giving that created ties did not end with her marriage. The testament and inventory made at the time of her death in 1328 offer descriptions of many of the gifts, and are considered here along with surviving works of art from the period to visualise the queen's objects. These gifts united Clémence with far-flung relatives separated by advantageous marriages and often sent messages or overtly promoted herself and her natal or marital families.
The Burgundian duke Charles the Bold (1433-1477) was not particularly well known for his liberality. According to De Barante, the nineteenth century historian of the Burgundian dukes, he was seen by his officers and the nobles as ‘bien avare et peu liberal pour un prince si jeune et si nouveau’. One of this article’s purposes is to investigate this claim, but my larger concern is to make sense of the patterns of gift-giving evidenced by the available sources. Although we do not have complete records of all Charles’s gift giving, the account of the highest financial officer, the argentier, combined with the household ordinances and a few narrative sources, provide a good overview of the importance and nature of gift-giving in Charles’s court. These texts reveal a charged and unstable culture of gift-giving, one in which the category of ‘gift’ itself is in some disarray and where bureaucratic pressures both distort the gift and ntensify Charles’s need to deploy gifts in order to secure his power.
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Past Presents: New Year's Gifts at the Valois Courts, ca. 14002001 •
Examines the practice of gift exchange for the étrennes.
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Portable Dynasties: Imperial Gift-Giving at the Court of Vienna in the Eighteenth Century2009 •
Bulletin du Centre de recherche du château de Versailles [En ligne], Articles et études, mis en ligne le 19 octobre 2016, consulté le 15 décembre 2016.
“Da parente”: A Special Form of the Vienna Court Ceremony in the Mid-Eighteenth Century. The Example of the Visits of Saxon-Polish Princes.2016 •
This paper explores the way the strict Viennese court ceremony was altered and simplified in the 1750s and 1760s during the visits of Saxon-Polish princes, who were related to the imperial family but were landless and not crown princes. It depicts in detail this lesserknown type of visit, called " da parente " along with the changes in the audience, the " Re-Visite " , the problems related to the accommodation and catering for the visitors as well as their participation in court leisure events, using ceremonial protocols and ceremony records, envoys' reports, and the correspondence and diaries of the princes, held in archives in Budapest, Dresden and Vienna. By comparing these sources and the published ceremony handbooks, this study highlights the differences between established court ceremony and this special kind of informal visit. It is demonstrable that the " da parente " type of visit was not applied as a standard or a norm in the court of Vienna, but invoked only in exceptional cases, with visitors who were related to the imperial family. Cet article s'intéresse à la manière dont le cérémonial à la cour de Vienne fut modifié et simplifié dans les années 1750 et 1760 lors des visites des princes de Saxe, qui étaient liés à la famille impériale mais ne possédaient pas de terres et n'étaient pas des princes héritiers. Il décrit en détail ce type de visite moins connu appelé « da parente », les changements apportés à l'audience, la " Revisite " (Gegen-Visite), la question du logement et des repas offerts aux visiteurs, ainsi que leur participation aux loisirs et festivités organisés par la cour en s’appuyant sur les protocoles et les registres de cérémonies, les rapports d’envoyés et sur la correspondance et les journaux des princes conservés dans les archives de Budapest, Dresde et Vienne. En comparant ces sources et les livres de cérémonies publiés, cette étude révèle les différences entre le cérémonial de cour établi et ce type particulier de visite informelle. Il est démontré que la visite „da parente” n’a pas été standardisée ni normalisée à la cour de Vienne, sauf dans des cas exceptionnels où les visiteurs avaient des liens de parenté avec la famille impériale.
Journal of Medieval History
Aspects of gift giving in Denmark in the sixteenth century and the case of the Rose Flower Cup2011 •
The concept of an ancient system of gift exchange gradually being replaced by a market economy during the middle ages and early modern period has been rightly challenged by many recent studies. As it will appear from this essay on gift giving at the Danish court of King Frederik II (1559–88), gifts and favours continued to play an important role in
Diyâr, 3. Jg., 2/2022, S. 242–26
Between the Sultan and the Boyars: Gifts in the Power Dynamic of Phanariot Investiture in Wallachia and MoldaviaThis paper addresses the ritualized power-balancing act illustrated by investiture ceremonies of what in Romanian historiography are designated as Phanariot princes or hospodars. The discus-sion focuses on the specific gifts exchanged in the highly ritualized transfer of power from the sultan to the Phanariot throne contender in the Danubian Principalities of Wallachia and Mol-davia in the 18th and 19th century. What are the symbols and meanings assigned to these gifts? What does sharing food at the sultan’s table and replicating the custom in Wallachia and Mol-davia represent in terms of the Ottoman system and the local power dynamic? What do the textiles used in the ceremonial investiture signify in terms of regulating the relation between the sultan and the throne contender? The use of specific markers for each stage has an anthropolog-ical value; however, the emphasis on material culture in a symbolical setting would make it more suitable for a cultural history methodology. Given the recent contribution of Romanian scholars on the topic of the mobility of material culture, especially in the confirmation of post-1821 rulers of Moldavia, the paper also engages with how the historiographical discourse has constructed the interval between 1711/1716 and 1821 as a particular historical period.
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