Deditio (ritual)

Deditio or deditiones was a ritual of submission in medieval Europe.^[1] It was a ceremony of subjection between a monarch and their subject, and included the latter bowing or laying by the feet of the monarch, barefooted and wearing ropes. It was a planned ceremony, agreed upon, and was used as a means of avoidance of escalation of conflicts, a strategy of peaceful solving of conflicts.^[2]

References[]

^ Zbigniew Dalewski (21 April 2008). Ritual and Politics: Writing the History of a Dynastic Conflict in Medieval Poland. BRILL. pp. 45–. ISBN 978-90-474-3337-8.
^ Vučetić Martin Marko (2013). "Das ritual der unterwerfung Stefan Nemanjas unter Maunel I. Komnenos (1172)" (PDF). Zbornik radova Vizantološkog instituta. 50 (1): 493–503. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-02-16.

[Dalewski2008-1] Zbigniew Dalewski (21 April 2008). Ritual and Politics: Writing the History of a Dynastic Conflict in Medieval Poland. BRILL. pp. 45–. ISBN 978-90-474-3337-8.

[2] Vučetić Martin Marko (2013). "Das ritual der unterwerfung Stefan Nemanjas unter Maunel I. Komnenos (1172)" (PDF). Zbornik radova Vizantološkog instituta. 50 (1): 493–503. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-02-16.

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