Liquid Assets, Dangerous Gifts: Presents and Politics at ...
Groebner, Valentin / Selwyn, Pamela E. A fascinating study of the movements and ambivalent meanings of gifts in the political culture of the fifteenth and early sixteenth century. . . . Valentin Groebner's book . . . provides us with a new way of understanding the meanings and uses of 'corruption.'"--Natalie Zemon Davis, "Sixteenth Century Journal