It is a basic feature of human existence that we engage in acts of mobility and hospitality and thereby seek to infuse liminal moments marked by ambiguity or disorientation with symbolic meaning. Considerable instances from pre-modern history can be found in the communal acts of the Teutonic Order. The current article seeks to show how the dual social identity of the Teutonic Knights, that is, their belonging to the estate of the praying as well as that of the fighting or ruling, was incorporated and embodied in their rituals of mobility and hospitality. By adopting and adapting practices from the world of monasticism while also taking on practices reflective of courtly-noble culture, the Teutonic Knights sought to justify and lay claim to their dual status and function in medieval society. The study investigates the Order’s rituals under the rubric of mobility and hospitality, as they are counted among the most perceptible and striking means of symbolic embodiment known to date. Such rituals galvanised and instilled a shared identity and functioned as collective means of communication.

我们从事活动和好客的行为，从而寻求以象征性含糊不清或迷失方向为标志的边缘时刻，是人类生存的基本特征。在条顿骑士团的共同行动中可以找到许多近现代史的实例。本篇文章旨在说明条顿骑士团的双重社会身份，即他们属于祈祷者以及战斗或统治者的财产，是如何融入并体现在他们流动和款待仪式中的。条顿骑士团通过采纳和适应寺院世界的做法，同时也采用反映宫廷贵族文化的做法，力求为他们在中世纪社会中的双重地位和职能辩护并提出主张。这项研究在流动性和款待的标题下调查了教士的仪式，因为它们被认为是迄今为止已知的象征性体现中最可感知和最醒目的手段之一。这种仪式激发并灌输了一种共同的身份，并起着集体交流的作用。