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Project

The sacralisation of knighthood. A study of religious knightly identity in the Southern Low Countries during the High Middle Ages.

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.

Date:1 Oct 2012 →  30 Sep 2017
Keywords:chivalry, military order, sacralisation, knightly habitus, charters, knighthood, peace of God, crusade, knightly piety, knight
Disciplines:History