Code
3G000613
Duration
01 January 2013 → 31 December 2018
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Humanities and the arts
- History
Keywords
Middle Ages
rituals
German
English
French
Latin
Dutch
Surveys
Language and text analysis
Western Europe
History
Religion
Project description
This project focuses on the public behavior of the elites of the tenth to twelfth centuries to investigate the competitive aspects of the Peace of God-movement. Ritual arguments referring to the Peace were shaped by ecclesiastical and lay agents in the pursuit of advantages over their competitors. A chain of such ‘performances’ represented the social aspirations of the elites.