homage

(noun)

In the Middle Ages this was the ceremony in which a feudal tenant or vassal pledged reverence and submission to his feudal lord, receiving in exchange the symbolic title to his new position.

Related Terms

  • fealty
  • mesne tenant
  • fiefs
  • vassals

Examples of homage in the following topics:

  • Aztec Religion

    • Some of the most central deities that the Aztecs paid homage to included:
    • Losers of the game were often ritually sacrificed as an homage to the gods.
    • Every level of Aztec society was affected by the belief in the human responsibility to pay homage to the gods and anyone could serve as a sacrificial offering.
  • Feudalism

    • This was done at a formal and symbolic ceremony called a commendation ceremony, which was composed of the two-part act of homage and oath of fealty.
    • During homage, the lord and vassal entered into a contract in which the vassal promised to fight for the lord at his command, while the lord agreed to protect the vassal from external forces.
  • Danish Intervention

    • Christian IV receives homage from the countries of Europe as mediator in the Thirty Years' War.
  • Arabian Cities

    • Up to the 7th century, this journey was undertaken by the pagan Arabs to pay homage to their shrine and drink from the Zamzam Well.
  • Expansion Under the Umayyad Caliphates

    • Although the Umayyad Caliphate did not rule all of the Sahara, nomadic Berber tribes paid homage to the caliph.
  • The Hohenzollerns

    • Prussia lay outside the Holy Roman Empire and the electors of Brandenburg held it as a fief of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, to which the electors paid homage.
  • The Formation of Russia

    • He stripped the boyars of their localized and state power and essentially created a sovereign state that paid homage to Moscow.
  • Odoacer and the Fall of Rome

    • However, Nepos reorganized his court in Salona, Dalmatia, and received homage and affirmation from the remaining fragments of the Western Empire beyond Italy and, most importantly, from Constantinople, which refused to accept Augustulus and branded him and his father traitors and usurpers.
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