Crusaders and Heretics, Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries

by Barber,Malcolm

• ISBN13: 9780860784760
• ISBN10: 0860784762
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-07-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

These articles seek to understand the attitudes and reactions of medieval society to both external threat and internal dissension, whether real or imagined. The crusaders encompass the Templars and the Knights of St Lazarus, members of military orders committed to the cause of perpetual battle for the faith; more reluctant secular knights urged into the complicated conflicts of Latin Greece by the papacy; and peasant enthusiasts from northern France, ultimately turning their frustration on the clergy and the Jews. Heretics range from Cathars, real opponents of the Church, to the lepers, imaginary subverters of society, allegedly in league with the two other perceived enemies of Western Christendom, the Jews and the Muslims.

Table of Contents

The origins of the Order of the Temple

James of Molay, the last Grand Master of the Order of the Temple

Women and Catharism

Lepers, Jews and Moslems: the plot to overthrow Christendom in 1321

The Pastoureaux of 1320

The Templars and the Turin Shroud

The world picture of Philip the Fair

The social context of the Templars

The crusade of the shepherds in 1251

Western attitudes to Frankish Greece in the 13th century

Catharism and the Occitan nobility: the lordships of Cabaret, Minerve and Termes

Supplying the Crusader States: the role of the Templars

The Order of Saint Lazarus and the Crusades

Index

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