Code
01D21512
Duration
01 October 2012 → 30 September 2017
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Humanities
- History
Keywords
chivalry
military order
sacralisation
knightly habitus
charters
knighthood
peace of God
crusade
knightly piety
knight
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.