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
Looptijd
01-10-2013 → 30-09-2017
Financiering
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Onderzoeksdisciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • History
Trefwoorden
middeleeuwse geschiedenis kerkelijke instellingen rituelen Duits Engels Frans Latijn Nederlands West-Europa Comparatief Iconografie en beeldanalyse Surveys en enquêtering Taal- en tekstanalyse Middeleeuwen Media Geschiedenis Communicatie Religie
 
Projectomschrijving

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).