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Except during that "window period," which included the bull Etsi de statu,
making concessions to kings on taxation, Clericis laicos remained a
sensitive issue with the French crown. Thus revocation was a top agenda
item with Philip IV & his advisers once Clement V was pope. The revocation
evoked a comment from one canonist, in a gloss to a MS now in that Vatican,
to the effect of: May God have mercy on the soul of him that revoked
it. See my article:
"Clericis laicos and the Canonists," in Popes, Teachers and Canon Law in
the Middle Ages: Festschrift for Brian Tierney, ed. James R. Sweeney and
Stanley Chodorow (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1989), pp. 179-190.
On an unsuccessful attempt to secure a canonization as a concession by
Clement, in an English case, see:
Sophia Menache, Clement V (Cambridge, 1998), pp. 275-278: The Case of
Thomas de Cantilupe.
For translations of some of the documents mentioned here & in other
messages, see:
Brian tierney, The Crisis of Church and State 1050-1300 : with selected
documents. Toronto ; Buffalo : Published by University of Toronto Press in
association with the Medieval Academy of America, c1988.
Tom Izbicki
At 06:31 AM 8/25/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
>On Sat, 24 Aug 2002, Phyllis Jestice wrote:
>
> > Louis IX (d. 1270) Louis became king of France in 1226 (at the age of 12).
> > His piety (and love of crusading) caught the attention of his age, and
> > Louis was made the model Christian king. Although both of Louis' crusades
> > were disasters, he was certainly famous for his attention to impartial
> > justice, honesty, and devotion to the passion. Louis was canonized in 1297
> > by Boniface VIII (does anyone know the story behind this? Isn't this the
> > year after the bull Clericis laicos was promulgated? It's hard to imagine
> > Boniface VIII doing the French royal family a favor).
>
>The canonization occurred as one of a spate of concessions to Philip the
>Fair during a period of rapproachement engineered by Philip's minister,
>Pierre Flotte. Boniface found himself between a rock and a hard place in
>early 1297 (the rock being the French and the hard place being the Itlian
>Colonnas), and at the time it seemed to him wiser to placate the former,
>though I'm sure in hindsight he realized what a disaster that was.
>For what it is worth, I have an article coming out in the Journal for
>Medieval History in which I argue that in the canonization documents
>(bull, sermons) Boniface uses Louis to set up an ideal of good kingship
>which stands, essentially, as a criticism of Philip the Fair. It
>backfires, of course. A pro-french document of 1302 or 3 then argues that
>Louis himself exemplified the royalist position, and that the very fact
>that the papacy canonized him proved the legitimacy of the royalist
>position.
>
>Cecilia Gaposchkin
>
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