IMC 2011: Sessions

Session 321: Gift-Giving, III: Gift-Giving and Bequests

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 321-a	Gifts to the King in Anglo-Saxon Wills (Language: English) Julie Mumby, Department of History, King's College London Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Social History
Paper 321-b	Papal Chaplains, Gift-Giving, and Testamentary Bequests in the Late 13th-Century Papal Court (Language: English) Matthew Ross, Department of History, University College London Index terms: Politics and Diplomacy, Social History
Paper 321-c	William Faunt's Testamentary Gifts: Rehabilitating Family and Civic Identity in 15th-Century Canterbury (Language: English) Sheila Sweetinburgh, School of English, University of Huddersfield Index terms: Lay Piety, Politics and Diplomacy
Abstract	This session will be the third in a series on gift-giving in the Middle Ages; it will concentrate on testamentary gifts. Each paper will explore motives for making such gifts: the first paper (Julie Mumby) will focus on the issue of loyalty; the second (Matthew Ross) on the role of money bequests in the building of social and familial bonds at the papal court; the third (Sheila Sweetinburgh) on the reconciliation of a disgraced family with a civic elite.