Project

The performative construction of episcopal authority in eleventh-century Lotharingia: towards an integrated analysis of speech acts, ritual behaviour and spatial representation.

Code

3F003513

Duration

01 October 2013 → 30 September 2017

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)

Promotor

Steven Vanderputten

Fellow

Pieter Byttebier

Research disciplines

Humanities and the arts
- History

Keywords

ecclesiastical institutions rituals medieval history German English French Latin Dutch Comparative Iconography and analysis of images Surveys Language and text analysis Middle Ages Bishops Leadership Lotharingia Ritual Western Europe History Communication Religion Media

Project description

This project will offer the first comprehensive and comparative analysis of the use of speech acts, ritual acts and spatial arrangements in the construction of episcopal authority in the ‘long eleventh century’ (roughly 980–1120).