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IMC 2011: Sessions

Session 521: Gift-Giving, IV: Gift-Giving and the 13th Century

Tuesday 12 July 2011, 09.00-10.30

Sponsor:Department of History, King's College London
Organiser:Jinty Nelson, Department of History, King's College London
Moderator/Chair:Jinty Nelson, Department of History, King's College London
Paper 521-aLordship, Lands, and Gift-Giving
(Language: English)
Lars Kjær, Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge
Index terms: Politics and Diplomacy, Social History
Paper 521-bGifts and Collective Identity in English Local Society, 1066-1300
(Language: English)
Christopher David Tilley, Department of History, King's College London
Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Social History
Abstract

This session will be the fourth in a series on gift-giving in the Middle Ages; it will concentrate on gift-giving in England in the central Middle Ages. The first paper (Lars Kjaer) explores the role of rituals of gift-giving in cementing relationships between lords and followers, stressing the ceremonial context of gift-giving; the second (Chris Tilley) will focus on the strategies whereby the lords of Wallingford used gifts to foster collective identity on the part of local elites.