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The sacralisation of knighthood. A study of religious knightly identity in the Southern Low Countries during the High Middle Ages.
Code
01D21512
Duration
01 October 2012 → 30 September 2017
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • History
Keywords
chivalry military order sacralisation knightly habitus charters knighthood peace of God crusade knightly piety knight Middle Ages French Latin Dutch Geographic and map based Iconography and analysis of images Quantitative Language and text analysis Western Europe Religion History
 
Project description
 

This project proposes a reinvestigation of the 'sacralisation of knighthood' within the Low Countries during the eleventh and twelfth centuries by testing the hypothesis that the development of a sacred ordo equester for the miles Christi became as much a deeply rooted component of chivalrous identity as a legitimising construct offering power to knights, noblemen and clerics alike.