Unceasing Strife, Unending Fear : Jacques de Therines and the Freedom of the Church in the Age of the Last Capetians

Omtale

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 Je