Gifts and Gift-giving [ Politics & Society / Furniture & Interior decoration / Social interaction ]
… the Begging Bow’, The British Museum, 1868,0808.5726, 1788. Résumé Gift-giving was an ubiquitous practice that fostered sociability by reflecting and strengthening the ties between individuals (and even nations) but was also potentially … Charity Empire Friendship Gift Hospitality Reciprocity Religion Gifts were often central to long eighteenth-century sociability because they helped to create and maintain reciprocal bonds between individuals, groups and even nations … 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 to the needy. Wills …
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