IMC 2011: Sessions

Session 621: Gift-Giving, V: Gift-Giving and Spiritual Gifts

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 621-a	Almsgiving and Penance in Later Anglo-Saxon England (Language: English) Helen Foxhall Forbes, School of Historical Studies, University of Leicester Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Theology
Paper 621-b	Peter Damian, Fonte Avellana, and the Giving and Receiving of Gifts (Language: English) Michael Gledhill, Department of History, King's College London Index terms: Religious Life, Social History
Paper 621-c	Tears: A Mechanism of Exchange between the Earthly and Divine in 13th-Century Religious Life (Language: English) Kimberley-Joy Knight, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews Index terms: Mentalities, Religious Life
Abstract	This session will be the fifth in a series on gift-giving in the Middle Ages; it will concentrate on the spiritual aspects of giving and associated moral values. The first paper (Foxhall Forbes) looks at almsgiving in late Anglo-Saxon England as a spiritual exchange, whether or not an actual gift was involved; the second (Gledhill) uses Peter Damian's letters to explore the uses of gifts by hermit-communities and their contacts with 'the world'; the third (Knight) shows how tears functioned as part of an exchange with the divine