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. https://books.google.com/books?id=IN-wCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA45.
↑ Vučetić Martin Marko (2013). "Das ritual der unterwerfung Stefan Nemanjas unter Maunel I. Komnenos (1172)". Zbornik radova Vizantološkog instituta 50 (1): 493–503. doi:10.2298/ZRVI1350493V. Archived from the original on 2016-02-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20160216194502/http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0584-9888/2013/0584-98881301493V.pdf.

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[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. https://books.google.com/books?id=IN-wCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA45.

[2] Vučetić Martin Marko (2013). "Das ritual der unterwerfung Stefan Nemanjas unter Maunel I. Komnenos (1172)". Zbornik radova Vizantološkog instituta 50 (1): 493–503. doi:10.2298/ZRVI1350493V. Archived from the original on 2016-02-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20160216194502/http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0584-9888/2013/0584-98881301493V.pdf.