Gifts and Gift-giving [ Politics & Society / Furniture & Interior decoration / Social interaction ]
… > Politics & Society Objects > Furniture & Interior decoration Concepts > Social interaction Mots-clés Charity Empire Friendship Gift Hospitality Reciprocity Religion Gifts were often central to long eighteenth-century sociability because … 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 to foster and deepen social relationships, … warned against excessive gifting but also saw a place for it. The Anglican divine Jeremy Taylor’s popular advice about friendship, first published in 1657, urged that one friend was not to refuse the ‘kindnesses’ of another, nor despise …
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