IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 801: Religious Ideas of Chivalry: Christian Ideals in Dialogue with Knightly Practices
Tuesday 7 July 2020, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Institut für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Philipps-Universität Marburg / Graduiertenkolleg 1662 'Religiöses Wissen im vormodernen Europa (800-1800)', Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen |
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| Organiser: | Marco Krätschmer, Seminar für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen |
| Moderator/Chair: | Ben Pope, John Rylands Research Institute, University of Manchester |
| Paper 801-a | From Robbers to Soldiers of Christ: Knightly Practices and the Shaping of the Miles Christi (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Military History, Social History |
| Paper 801-b | Womanisers and Adventurers: Chivalric Harmonisation Strategies in Middle High German Courtly Literature (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Mentalities, Social History |
| Paper 801-c | The Virtue of Violence: Prowess and Courage in Middle High German Courtly Romance (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Mentalities, Social History |
| Abstract | The impact of religious ideas on the ethics of knighthood was very powerful during the 11th and 12th century; the formative period of chivalry. Yet, the Christian principles imposed on the knights by ecclesiastical authorities have always been in stark contrast to the warlike and courtly virtues of the lay warrior elite. One of the central problems of current research is how contemporaries related and discussed these two different sets of values. In this session, both historians and literary scholars will examine this contrast as a continuous mutual process of negotiation in which adjustments were made on both sides. The session opens an interdisciplinary debate and provides aspects from different sources to the significant question of how the knight's religious identity was formed. |