IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 841: Religious Ideas of Chivalry: Christian Ideals in Dialogue with Knightly Practices
Tuesday 5 July 2022, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Deutsches Seminar, Abteilung für Mediävistik, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen / Institut für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Philipps-Universität Marburg |
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| Organiser: | Alexandra Becker, Graduiertenkolleg 1662 'Religiöses Wissen im vormodernen Europa (800–1800)', Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen |
| Moderator/Chair: | Bastiaan Waagmeester, Graduiertenkolleg 1662 'Religiöses Wissen im vormodernen Europa (800–1800)', Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen |
| Paper 841-a | Religious Ideas of Knighthood in the Salian and Staufen Empires (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Historiography - Medieval, Military History |
| Paper 841-b | Heroes, Knights, and Religion: The Conflict of Action and Ethics in the Middle High German Nibelungenlied (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Mentalities, Social History |
| Paper 841-c | Womanisers and Adventurers: Chivalric Harmonisation Strategies in Middle High German Courtly Literature (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, 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. |