Begging Pardon and Favor: Ritual and Political Order in Early Medieval France by Koziol, Geoffrey

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Cornell University Press, May 1992. Hardcover . Used - fine/Fine. A square, tight, and unmarked copy. Dust jacket now protected in removable mylar.

New York.: Cornell University Press, 1992. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover 1992, 1st edition. Dust jacket and boards in fine condition. Binding firm. Pages unmarked and clean. (459 pages).

Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 488pp. Very good hardcover in like dust-jacket. Pages clean, binding sound. Eight black and white illustrations. One map. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1992.

Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1992. Hardcover. Like New/Very Good. 6x1x9. Illustrated. In reconstructing and interpreting rituals of supplication, Geoffrey Koziol here uncovers the dense meanings of these most commonplace of all early medieval rituals. The author casts a wide net, comparing these rituals in several regions of northern and western France to illuminate the complex changes in social relations and political power in the tenth and eleventh centuries.In medieval cultures, "supplication" was simply the act of prayer, an act that required a distinctive language of entreaty accompanied gestures of humility, such as kneeling and prostration. Koziol shows that in tenth- and eleventh-century France, prayer was an act of political honor as well as religious devotion, since the language and gestures of prayer were used to address not only God but also earthly lords who claimed to rule "by the grace of God."Making subtle use of ethnological studies and using a… Read More

Cornell U P, 1992. ~Minor sidelining to about 4 pages. Dustwrapper slightly edgeworn but unclipped.. 1st edn. Hardback. Fine/Very Good+. xxiii, 459pp. Binding sound, text unmarked.

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Cornell Univ Pr, 1992. Hardcover. New. 488 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.25 inches.

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