Project description
The influence of chivalry in the medieval Eastern Mediterranean
Between 1200 and 1300 AD, a shared elite identity centred on martial values developed in the Eastern Mediterranean. This system was diverse and adaptable, evolving through various local interpretations. Following the Fourth Crusade in 1204, competing regional powers required multi-ethnic elites to find common ground, and ties to Italian city-states such as Venice facilitated the exchange of chivalric ideas. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the VIDICHI13th project is examining how elite identities develop, focusing on the influence of chivalry (defined as values associated with mounted warfare) on regional culture. The project will trace maritime routes from Cyprus to the Venetian lagoon.
Objective
“Visual Dialects of Chivalry: Aristocratic Strategies of Cultural Exchange in the Thirteenth-Century Mediterranean” (VIDICHI13th) inquires into the mechanisms that lead to the creation of a shared elite identity, centered on martial values, in the Eastern Mediterranean from ca. 1200 to ca. 1300 AD. I intend to assess the impact of chivalry, defined here as a loose set of shared mores and aesthetic preferences connected to the exaltation of mounted warfare as the aristocracy’s defining pursuit, on the visual and material culture of the region’s elites. I propose that this complex phenomenon cannot be reduced to a Western cultural export, as hitherto argued. Rather, its multivalent nature and inherent adaptability allowed for the emergence of localized approaches to chivalric culture; in linguistic terms, mutually intelligible dialects, rather than a monolithic language. Nowhere is chivalry’s fluidity and its potential for cross-cultural communication more pronounced than in the period and geographical area under examination. In the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade (1204) and the Byzantine Empire’s subsequent disintegration, the rapid rise and fall of competing powers enhanced the need for its multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, and multi-confessional warrior elites to find ideological common ground. Contextually, the Eastern Mediterranean's deeper integration into the commercial networks of the Italian city-states – most prominently Venice, with its “colonial” possessions – and direct connection to the Frankish cultural sphere super-charged the circulation and cross-pollination of chivalric formulas. The project’s structure is designed to follow the maritime routes connecting the easternmost of the former Byzantine territories, Cyprus, to the Venetian lagoon, sailing by the southern Peloponnese, and skirting the Adriatic coast of Italy.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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