Code
01D21512
Duration
01 October 2012 → 30 September 2017
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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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.