Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-149) and index.

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This absorbing book explores the tensions within the Roman Catholic church and between the church and royal authority in France in the crucial period 1290-1321. During this time the crown tried to force churchmen to accept policies many considered inconsistent with ecclesiastical freedom and traditions--such as paying war taxes and expelling the Jews from the kingdom. William Jordan considers these issues through the eyes of one of the most important and courageous actors, the Cistercian monk, professor, abbot, and polemical writer Jacques de Th�erines. The result is a fresh perspective on wha.

CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CHAPTER 1: Encroachments on Ecclesiastical Authority: Taxation, Clerical Immunity, and the Jews; CHAPTER 2: The Pope in Avignon and the Crisis of the Templars; CHAPTER 3: The Exemption Controversy at the Council of Vienne; CHAPTER 4: An Uneasy Relationship: Church and State at the Cistercian Abbey of Sainte-Marie of Chaalis; CHAPTER 5: Old Fights and New: From Exemption to Usus pauper; EPILOGUE: Unceasing Strife, Unending Fear; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.

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