IMC 2011: Sessions

Session 221: Gift-Giving, II: Gift-Giving and Objects

Sponsor:	Department of History, King's College London
Organiser:	Jinty Nelson, Department of History, King's College London
Moderator/Chair:	Alice Rio, New College, University of Oxford
Paper 221-a	Offering Brooches to the Dead: The Changing Gendered Value of a Gift between Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (Language: English) Irene Barbiera, Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche, Geografiche e dell’Antichità, Università degli Studi di Padova Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Art History - Decorative Arts
Paper 221-b	Making the World Go Round?: Money and Gift in Early Medieval England and Francia (Language: English) Rory Naismith, Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge Index terms: Economics - Trade, Numismatics
Paper 221-c	The Star Cloak of the Emperor Henry II (Language: English) Stuart Airlie, School of Humanities (History), University of Glasgow Index terms: Art History - Decorative Arts, Politics and Diplomacy
Abstract	This session will be the second in a series on gift-giving in the Middle Ages; it will concentrate on the evidence of artefacts (as opposed to texts).