Medievalists.net » Pope Gregory IX http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Women, Heresy, and Crusade: Toward a Context for Jacques de Vitry’s Relationship to the Early Beguines http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/06/women-heresy-crusade-toward-context-jacques-de-vitrys-relationship-early-beguines/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/06/women-heresy-crusade-toward-context-jacques-de-vitrys-relationship-early-beguines/#comments Wed, 06 Aug 2014 13:20:05 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=51669 Grundmann‘s search for a founding figure is understandable in light of the problematic nature of Beguine institutional history. Beguine historiography has long struggled with the anomalous lack of clear foundation documents and accounts.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/06/women-heresy-crusade-toward-context-jacques-de-vitrys-relationship-early-beguines/feed/ 0 Picturing Gregory: The Evolving Imagery of Canon Law http://www.medievalists.net/2013/02/04/picturing-gregory-the-evolving-imagery-of-canon-law/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/02/04/picturing-gregory-the-evolving-imagery-of-canon-law/#comments Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:20:19 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=39075 This paper surveys images created for the opening of the Liber extra between around 1240 and 1350, from a variety of standpoints: iconography, page layout, patrons and readers - and also suggests possible ideological agendas that might be embedded in the illustrations.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/02/04/picturing-gregory-the-evolving-imagery-of-canon-law/feed/ 0 The Roman De La Rose and the Thirteenth Century Prohibitions of Homosexuality http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/11/the-roman-de-la-rose-and-the-thirteenth-century-prohibitions-of-homosexuality/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/11/the-roman-de-la-rose-and-the-thirteenth-century-prohibitions-of-homosexuality/#comments Mon, 11 Jun 2012 05:14:14 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=32641 This paper, a tentative approach by someone who is not an expert in this area or on this text, argues that Guillaume de Lorris offers a veiled description of a male to male love relationship.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/11/the-roman-de-la-rose-and-the-thirteenth-century-prohibitions-of-homosexuality/feed/ 0 The Authoritative Text: Raymond of Penyafort’s Editing of the ‘Decretals of Gregory IX’ (1234) http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/25/the-authoritative-text-raymond-of-penyaforts-editing-of-the-decretals-of-gregory-ix-1234/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/25/the-authoritative-text-raymond-of-penyaforts-editing-of-the-decretals-of-gregory-ix-1234/#comments Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:25:13 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=31303 The Decretals of Gregory IX, promulgated in 1234, was the first collection of canon law for the Catholic Church invested with universal and exclusive authority, and was the culmination of a century and a half process by which the a now papal-led Church came to be the leading institution within medieval European society.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/25/the-authoritative-text-raymond-of-penyaforts-editing-of-the-decretals-of-gregory-ix-1234/feed/ 0 The monastic response to Papal reform: Summi Magistri and it reception http://www.medievalists.net/2011/12/04/the-monastic-response-to-papal-reform-summi-magistri-and-it-reception/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/12/04/the-monastic-response-to-papal-reform-summi-magistri-and-it-reception/#comments Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:17:57 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=27688 This is a question which has dogged the history of the interaction between Rome and the Black monks, and it brings a second question in its wake - what were the medieval Popes trying to do with monasticism?

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/12/04/the-monastic-response-to-papal-reform-summi-magistri-and-it-reception/feed/ 0 The Political Crusades – A useful historiographical concept? http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/28/the-political-crusades-a-useful-historiographical-concept/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/28/the-political-crusades-a-useful-historiographical-concept/#comments Thu, 28 Jul 2011 18:58:36 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=23411 The Political Crusades – A useful historiographical concept? Følner, Bjarke  MA. Honours, University of Edinburgh (2001) Abstract This paper deals with the modern historiographical concept of the “political crusades”. The term “political crusade” was, of course, not coined during the Middle Ages itself. The simple explanation for the historiographical invention and application of the term […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/28/the-political-crusades-a-useful-historiographical-concept/feed/ 0 Negotiating Interfaith Relations in Eastern Christendom: Pope Gregory IX, Bela IV of Hungary, and the Latin Empire http://www.medievalists.net/2011/04/24/negotiating-interfaith-relations-in-eastern-christendom-pope-gregory-ix-bela-iv-of-hungary-and-the-latin-empire/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/04/24/negotiating-interfaith-relations-in-eastern-christendom-pope-gregory-ix-bela-iv-of-hungary-and-the-latin-empire/#comments Sun, 24 Apr 2011 18:44:42 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=20092 Negotiating Interfaith Relations in Eastern Christendom: Pope Gregory IX, Bela IV of Hungary, and the Latin Empire Lower, Michael (University of Minnesota) Essays in Medieval Studies, Vol.21 (2004) Abstract At the beginning of the thirteenth century Pope Innocent III (1198-1216) laid a framework for centralizing papal power over Christian encounters with non-Christians. He enacted legislation to separate Jews from Christians, […]

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