Medievalists.net » Pope Clement V 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 Chronicles and historiography: the interrelationship of fact and fiction http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/12/chronicles-historiography-interrelationship-fact-%ef%ac%81ction/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/12/chronicles-historiography-interrelationship-fact-%ef%ac%81ction/#comments Sat, 12 Apr 2014 22:51:26 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=48932 This paper indicates some of the challenges posed by fourteenth-century chronicles while focusing on contemporary testimonies about Clement V, pope between 1305 and 1314.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/12/chronicles-historiography-interrelationship-fact-%ef%ac%81ction/feed/ 0 Motivations and Response to Crusades in the Aegean: c.1300-1350 http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/16/motivations-and-response-to-crusades-in-the-aegean-c-1300-1350/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/16/motivations-and-response-to-crusades-in-the-aegean-c-1300-1350/#comments Mon, 16 Jul 2012 05:50:41 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=33870 Since the Fourth Crusade, there had been a permanent Latin settlement in the Aegean made up primarily of the Venetians who had fought alongside the Frankish knights in 1204.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/16/motivations-and-response-to-crusades-in-the-aegean-c-1300-1350/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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