IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 852: Social and Cultural Dimensions of Exchange
Tuesday 2 July 2019, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | Frederik Vognsen Hansen, Institut for Kultur og Samfund, Aarhus Universitet |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Thomas Heebøll-Holm, Institut for Historie, Syddansk Universitet, Odense |
| Paper 852-a | Narrating Gifts (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Middle English, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 852-b | Of 'Theft' and 'Rapine': Or, How Crimes Were Defined by Their Actors, Rather than by Their Actions (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Law, Social History |
| Paper 852-c | Credit, Commodification, and Criminalization: Taking, Giving, and Markets in the Southern Baltic, 15th to 16th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Economics - Trade, Maritime and Naval Studies, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | This session investigates giving gifts and seizing objects as social and cultural practices. Lars Kjær investigates the ways in which the meaning of gifts was constructed and creatively transformed by medieval writers. The paper focuses on four rings from Innocent III to Richard I of England and their complex later history. Frederik Lynge Vognsen examines how, in late medieval Denmark, different narratives associated with theft and rapine resulted in different legal conduct depending on who committed the crime. Philipp Höhn investigates how seized objects were characterized by reciprocal social relations. This meant that they were both intertwined in the social relations of the former owners and other people claiming ownership: they had a complex and contested history. |