The Debate on the Trial of the Templars (1307?1314) (Paperback)

Contents: Preface; Introduction, Malcolm Barber; Part I Before the Trial: Could alleged Templar malpractices have remained undetected for decades?, Alan Forey; The election of the Templar Master Jacques de Molay, Anthony Luttrell; Institutional dependency upon secular and ecclesiastical patrons and the foundations of the trial of the Templars, Nicholas Morton; Fighting the King of France: Templars and Hospitallers in the Flemish rebellion of 1302, Bernard Schotte; The monetary fluctuations in Philip IV's kingdom of France and their relevance to the arrest of the Templars, Ignacio de la Torre. Part II The Trial in France: Terror, torture and the truth: the testimonies of the Templars revisited, Thomas KrA¤mer; The Templars face the Inquisition: the papal commission and the diocesan tribunals in France, 1308-11, Dale R. Streeter; Three 'traitors' of the Temple: was their truth the whole truth?, David Bryson; The trial inventories of the Templars' houses in France: select aspects, Jochen Burgtorf; On the margins of the Templars' trial: the case of Bishop Guichard of Troyes, Alain Provost; The involvement of the University of Paris in the trials of Marguerite Porete and the Templars, 1308-10, Paul F. Crawford; The trial depositions as evidence of kinship influences in the Order of the Temple, Jochen G. Schenk; The social reception of the Templar trial in early 14th-Century France: the transmission of information, Magdalena Satora. Part III The Trial in the Iberian Peninsula: Reassessing the dissolution of the Templars: King Dinis and their suppression in Portugal, Clive Porro; Icons, crosses and the liturgical objects of Templar chapels in the Crown of Aragon, SebastiA¡n SalvadA³; The extinction of the Order of the Temple in the kingdom of Valencia and early Montesa, 1307-30: a case of transition from universalist to territorialized military orders, Luis GarcA­a-Guijarro Ramos. Part IV The Trial in the British Isles: King Edward II of England and the Templars, Jef