Unceasing Strife, Unending Fear: Jacques de Thérines and the Freedom of the Church in the Age of the Last CapetiansThis 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." |
Contents
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The Pope in Avignon and the Crisis of the Templars | 18 |
The Exemption Controversy at the Council of Vienne | 37 |
An Uneasy Relationship Church and State at the Cistercian Abbey of SainteMarie of Chaalis | 56 |
Old Fights and New From Exemption to Usus pauper | 73 |