Dear Jim,
I suspect you are interested in Fulk as Jacques de Vitry's antitype to
Pierre de Roissy and other penance preachers who 'sold out' by accepting
high offices (an accusation later levelled by THomas of Cantimpre against
Jacques himself when he became cardinal). There are many bad secondary
sources on Fulk--ala the thinly veiled Marxism of Norman Cohn's treatment
and Alphandery needs to be treated cautiously as well. The best I've read
have been Baldwin's Masters, Princes and Merchants, and he also cites an
article by Gutsch which covers all the main primary sources, including
James' ode in his Historia Occidentalis (ed. J. F. Hinnebusch). Gary
Dickson's articles on the children's crusade also mention Fulk en passant
and link him tangentially to what is going on in Chartres and the origin
of the children's crusade in 1212. I don't have the exact references to
hand on those (still in unpacked boxes from a recent move).
I've done a lot of work on Fulk for my thesis and for several articles
(for Fulk and usury you may want to see my article in J. Moore, Innocent
III and his World, Ashgate, 1999), and I've written another article on
Peter the CHanter's circle and indulgences which treats their and FUlk's
expansion of personal involvement in the crusade to categories otherwise
traditionally excluded. I'd be interested in seeing what you think of him,
but I'll leave that discussion for off-list!
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Jessalynn Bird
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