Gifts and Gift-giving [ Politics & Society / Furniture & Interior decoration / Social interaction ]
… 1 Presents played an important part in long-eighteenth century Britain in the prized, and often intertwined, virtues of liberality, hospitality, charity, friendship, generosity, honour and patronage. The exchange of gifts helped … These factors were repeated in eighteenth century works that saw the gift as both potentially virtuous and a threat to virtue, an ambiguity reinforced by humanist and Christian literature. The Renaissance had witnessed renewed stress on …
Charity | Empire | Friendship | Gift | Hospitality | Reciprocity | Religion
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