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 |
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Organiser: | Jinty Nelson, Department of History, King's College London |
Moderator/Chair: | Jinty Nelson, Department of History, King's College London |
Paper 521-a | Lordship, Lands, and Gift-Giving (Language: English) Index terms: Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
Paper 521-b | Gifts and Collective Identity in English Local Society, 1066-1300 (Language: English) 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. |