Institute for Medieval Studies

Session	841
Title	Religious Ideas of Chivalry: Christian Ideals in Dialogue with Knightly Practices
Date/Time	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
Organiser	Alexandra Becker, Abteilung für Mediävistik, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Moderator/Chair	Bastiaan Waagmeester, Seminar für mittelalterliche Geschichte, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Paper 841-a	Religious Ideas of Knighthood in the Salian and Staufen Empires (Language: English) Marco Krätschmer, Institut für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Philipps-Universität Marburg 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) Nina Sarah Holzschuh, Abteilung für Mediävistik, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen 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) Alexandra Becker, Abteilung für Mediävistik, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen 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.