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Record Nr.

UNINA9910968186503321

Autore

Jordan William Chester <1948->

Titolo

Unceasing strife, unending fear : Jacques de Therines and the freedom of the church in the age of the last Capetians / / William Chester Jordan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2005

ISBN

9786612087356

9781282087354

1282087355

9781400826599

1400826594

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (169 p.)

Disciplina

282/.44/09022

Soggetti

Church history - Middle Ages, 600-1500

France Church history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [137]-149) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CHAPTER 1. Encroachments on Ecclesiastical Authority: Taxation, Clerical Immunity, and the Jews -- CHAPTER 2. The Pope in Avignon and the Crisis of the Templars -- CHAPTER 3. The Exemption Controversy at the Council of Vienne -- CHAPTER 4. An Uneasy Relationship: Church and State at the Cistercian Abbey of Sainte-Marie of Chaalis -- CHAPTER 5. Old Fights and New: From Exemption to Usus pauper -- EPILOGUE: Unceasing Strife, Unending Fear -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

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 Thérines. 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 Thérines 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 Thérines's views all the more courageous.