Social:Deditio (ritual)

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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]

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