Unceasing Strife, Unending Fear

Jacques de Thérines and the Freedom of the Church in the Age of the Last Capetians

William Chester Jordan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

176 Seiten

2016
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-17149-4 (ISBN)

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This absorbing book explores the tensions within the Roman Catholic church and between the church and royal authority in France in the crucial period 1290-1321. During this time the crown tried to force churchmen to accept policies many considered inconsistent with ecclesiastical freedom and traditions--such as paying war taxes and expelling the Jews from the kingdom. William Jordan considers these issues through the eyes of one of the most important and courageous actors, the Cistercian monk, professor, abbot, and polemical writer Jacques de Therines. The result is a fresh perspective on what Jordan terms "the story of France in a politically terrifying period of its existence, one of unceasing strife and unending fear." Jacques de Therines was involved in nearly every controversy of the period: the expulsion of the Jews from France, the relocation of the papacy to Avignon, the affair of the Templars, the suppression of the "heresies" of Marguerite Porete and of the Spiritual Franciscans, and the defense of the "exempt" monastic orders' freedom from all but papal control.
The stands he took were often remarkable in themselves: hostility to the expulsion of Jews and spirited defense of the Templars, for example. The book also traces the emergence of King Philip the Fair's (1285-1314) almost paranoid style of rule and its impact on church-state relations, which makes the expression of Jacques de Therines's views all the more courageous.

William Chester Jordan is Professor of History and Director of the Program in Medieval Studies at Princeton University. His books include Europe in the High Middle Ages (Penguin) and The Great Famine: Northern Europe in the Early Fourteenth Century (Princeton).

*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*PREFACE, pg. ix*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xiii*CHAPTER 1. Encroachments on Ecclesiastical Authority: Taxation, Clerical Immunity, and the Jews, pg. 1*CHAPTER 2. The Pope in Avignon and the Crisis of the Templars, pg. 18*CHAPTER 3. The Exemption Controversy at the Council of Vienne, pg. 37*CHAPTER 4. An Uneasy Relationship: Church and State at the Cistercian Abbey of Sainte-Marie of Chaalis, pg. 56*CHAPTER 5. Old Fights and New: From Exemption to Usus pauper, pg. 73*EPILOGUE: Unceasing Strife, Unending Fear, pg. 98*NOTES, pg. 105*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 137*INDEX, pg. 151

Erscheinungsdatum	26.07.2016
Verlagsort	New Jersey
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 235 mm
Gewicht	255 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	0-691-17149-1 / 0691171491
ISBN-13	978-0-691-17149-4 / 9780691171494
Zustand	Neuware