Gifts and Gift-giving [ Politics & Society / Furniture & Interior decoration / Social interaction ]
… stake. Practices > 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 … 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 to foster and deepen social … and Measures of Friendship with Rules of Conducting it (London: Royston, 1657), pp. 100-101. Ideas about Christian charity – philanthropic sociability - also involved gift-giving, and prompted many acts of generosity to friends, kin and …
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