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Albigensian Crusade
Alexander III
Apostolic Blessing
Apostolice Sedis
Apostolice Sedis Legatus
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canon law reform
Canonical Visitation
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Celestine III
Concubinary Priests
Council of Bourges
documentary history
Dominus Rex
Dunstable Annals
ecclesiastical taxation
Eodem Anno
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European representative democracy
Fourth Lateran Council
Henry III
Honorius III
Innocent Iii
King Henry III
Legatine Council
Liber Censuum
Lord Pope
medieval church politics
monastic jurisdiction disputes
origins of European parliamentary democracy
papal authority France
Papal Judge Delegate
Plenitudo Potestatis
political crisis
Pope Honorius III
Quod Omnes Tangit
Raymond VII
representative assemblies history
Roger Wendover
Sixth Crusade
Product details
- ISBN 9780754608035
- Weight: 1310g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 May 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Never before had France had a church council so large: almost 1000 churchmen assembled at Bourges on 29 November 1225 to authorize a tax on their incomes in support of the Second Albigensian Crusade. About one third of the participants were representatives sent by corporate bodies, in accordance with a new provision of canon law that insisted, for the first time ever, that there should be no taxation without representation. Basing himself on the rich surviving records, Professor Kay paints a skilful portrait of this council: the political manoeuvering by the papal legate to ensure the tax went through, and his use of this highly public occasion to humiliate members of the University of Paris; and, on the other hand, his failure to win a permanent endowment to support the papal bureaucracy, the bishops' effective protests against the pope's threat to diminish their jurisdiction over monasteries, and a subsequent 'taxpayers' revolt' that challenged the validity of the tax. The book also draws out the importance and implications of what took place, highlighting the council's place at the fountainhead of European representative democracy, the impact of the decisions made on the course of the Albigensian Crusade, the reform of monasticism, and the funding of the papal government which was left to rely on stop-gap expedients, such as the sale of indulgences. In addition, the author suggests that the corpus of texts, newly edited from the original manuscripts and with English translation, could be seen as a model for the revision of the conciliar corpus, most of which still remains based on 18th-century scholarship.
Richard Kay is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History, University of Kansas. His recent publications include two major works on Dante: Dante's Christian Astrology (1994), and Dante's Monarchia, translated with a commentary (1998); together with a volume of essays, Councils and Clerical Culture in the Medieval West (1997), which collects a set of studies preliminary to the present volume.
