Medievalists.net » King Philip IV of France http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Medieval Emergencies and the Contemporary Debate http://www.medievalists.net/2015/06/27/medieval-emergencies-and-the-contemporary-debate/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/06/27/medieval-emergencies-and-the-contemporary-debate/#comments Sat, 27 Jun 2015 22:40:37 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=59246 This article shows that medieval France formulated its own state of exception, meant to deal with emergencies, based on the legal principle of necessity.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/06/27/medieval-emergencies-and-the-contemporary-debate/feed/ 0 A Heresy of State: Philip the Fair, the Trial of the ‘Perfidious Templars,’ and the Pontificalization of the French Monarchy http://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/18/heresy-state-philip-fair-trial-perfidious-templars-pontificalization-french-monarchy/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/18/heresy-state-philip-fair-trial-perfidious-templars-pontificalization-french-monarchy/#comments Tue, 18 Mar 2014 19:38:13 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=48376 This article provides an outline for a new interpretation of the trial of the Templars, with special attention to the texts written by the instigators of the case, namely, Philip the Fair and his ministers.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/18/heresy-state-philip-fair-trial-perfidious-templars-pontificalization-french-monarchy/feed/ 0 Boniface VIII and Philip IV: Conflict Between Church and State http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/27/boniface-viii-and-philip-iv-conflict-between-church-and-state/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/27/boniface-viii-and-philip-iv-conflict-between-church-and-state/#comments Sat, 28 Dec 2013 00:03:12 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46104 During the middle ages there were conflicts between church and state. From 1294-1303 Boniface VIII and Philip the IV, king of France had such an issue.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/27/boniface-viii-and-philip-iv-conflict-between-church-and-state/feed/ 0 Salutare Animas Nostras: The Ideologies Behind the Foundation of the Templars http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/18/salutare-animas-nostras-the-ideologies-behind-the-foundation-of-the-templars/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/18/salutare-animas-nostras-the-ideologies-behind-the-foundation-of-the-templars/#comments Sun, 18 Nov 2012 17:29:23 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=37224 The meteoric rise of the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and the Temple of Solomon (more commonly known as the Knights Templar) and their equally swift fall has fueled fanciful tales and scholarly research. The order promoted their mythological origins and the extreme charges leveled against them by Philip IV of France (1285-1314) created an atmosphere of speculation.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/18/salutare-animas-nostras-the-ideologies-behind-the-foundation-of-the-templars/feed/ 0 Tax administration and compliance: evidence from medieval Paris http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/20/tax-administration-and-compliance-evidence-from-medieval-paris/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/20/tax-administration-and-compliance-evidence-from-medieval-paris/#comments Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:00:27 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=32957 We provide evidence from the Parisian tailles levied between 1292 and 1313 and other historical records that indicates that these royal taxes were collected from the Free City of Paris at a remarkably low cost, without violence and with limited recourse to legal action against tax evaders.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/20/tax-administration-and-compliance-evidence-from-medieval-paris/feed/ 0 War financing in the late-Medieval Crown of Aragon http://www.medievalists.net/2011/08/12/war-financing-in-the-late-medieval-crown-of-aragon/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/08/12/war-financing-in-the-late-medieval-crown-of-aragon/#comments Fri, 12 Aug 2011 16:51:48 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=24091 War financing in the late-Medieval Crown of Aragon Kagay, Donald J. (Albany State University) The Journal of Medieval Military History, Volume 6 (2008) Introduction: Medieval soldiers would agree wholeheartedly with the political maxim which had grown hackneyed by the time of the Renaissance in its assertion that “money constitutes the sinews of war.” Medieval sovereigns […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/08/12/war-financing-in-the-late-medieval-crown-of-aragon/feed/ 0 The Letters of Eljigidei, Hülegü, and Abaqa: Mongol Overtures or Christian Ventriloquism? http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/27/the-letters-of-eljigidei-hulegu-and-abaqa-mongol-overtures-or-christian-ventriloquism/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/27/the-letters-of-eljigidei-hulegu-and-abaqa-mongol-overtures-or-christian-ventriloquism/#comments Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:35:11 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=23350 The Letters of Eljigidei, Hülegü, and Abaqa: Mongol Overtures or Christian Ventriloquism? Aigle, Denise (French Institute for the Middle East – Damascus) Inner Asia 7 (2005) Abstract This paper deals with the Great Khans and Ilkhans’ letters, and with the question of their authenticity. Generally, these letters were written in Mongolian, but very few of […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/27/the-letters-of-eljigidei-hulegu-and-abaqa-mongol-overtures-or-christian-ventriloquism/feed/ 0 The Templar Trials: Did the System Work? http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/25/the-templar-trials-did-the-system-work/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/25/the-templar-trials-did-the-system-work/#comments Mon, 25 Jul 2011 20:26:36 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=23281 Although the trials in general were held with enormous personal expenditures and by obviously careful observation of procedural rules, the ’system did not really work’; it was undermined by the dynamics of a legal instrument (that is, torture), which in the end was based on the use of violence.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/25/the-templar-trials-did-the-system-work/feed/ 0 RELIGION, WARRIOR ELITES, AND PROPERTY RIGHTS http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/17/religion-warrior-elites-and-property-rights/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/17/religion-warrior-elites-and-property-rights/#comments Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:36:34 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=22890 RELIGION, WARRIOR ELITES, AND PROPERTY RIGHTS Hull, Brooks B. and Bold, Frederick Association for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture 2011 Annual Meeting Abstract In 1119 A.D., King Baldwin II of Jerusalem granted nine French knights space in the Al Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount over the ruins of Solomon’s Temple to create the headquarters of […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/17/religion-warrior-elites-and-property-rights/feed/ 0 A Building Site in Early Sixteenth-Century Normandy: The Castle of Gaillon, Organization, Workers, Materials and Technologies http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/13/a-building-site-in-early-sixteenth-century-normandy-the-castle-of-gaillon-organization-workers-materials-and-technologies/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/13/a-building-site-in-early-sixteenth-century-normandy-the-castle-of-gaillon-organization-workers-materials-and-technologies/#comments Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:49:09 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=22689 The castle of Gaillon, built in Normandy between 1498 and 1510 for cardinal Georges I d’Amboise, has been considered one of the first and most significant achievements of the early French Renaissance.

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