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The medieval warrior aristocracy : gifts, violence, performance, and the sacred /

The process of identity formation during the central Middle Ages [10th-12th centuries] among the warrior aristocracy was fundamentally centered on the paired practices of gift giving and violent taking, inextricably linked elements of the same basic symbolic economy. These performative practices can...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cowell, Andrew, 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge : D.S. Brewer, 2007.
Colección:Gallica (Woodbridge (Suffolk, England)) ; v. 6.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a The power of giving -- The symbolic constitution of the giving subject: William the Conqueror and Robert Guiscard -- Violence and "taking": towards a generalized symbolic economy -- Taking an identity: The poem of the Cid -- The sacred kept -- The hero, gratuity and alterity: The song of Roland -- The supplemental hero: Raoul of Cambrai -- Female integrity and masculine desires in The Nibelungenlied -- Fractured identities, and the solution of chivalry: William of Orange -- Conclusion: a new, different warrior aristocracy. 
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