La Papauté et les croisades / The Papacy and the Crusades

Michel Balard is Emeritus Professor of the History of the Middle Ages, Université de Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne, France, and from 2001 to 2008 was President of the Society for the Studies of the Crusades and the Latin East

• Contents: Introduction, Michel Balard; Part I Les Mots/Terminology: Nouveau mot ou nouvelle réalité? Le terme cruciata et son utilisation dans les textes pontificaux, Benjamin Weber; Le varie ragioni per 'assumere la croce'. Il senso di un arruolamento in più direzioni, Giulio Cipollone; The French recent historiography of the Holy War, Michel Balard. Part II L'Occident/The West: Louis VII, Innocent II et la seconde croisade, Monique Amouroux; 'Smoking sword': le meurtre du légat Pierre de Castelnau et la première croisade albigeoise, Marco Meschini; Casting out demons by Beelzebul: did the papal preaching against the Albigensians ruin the Crusades? Karl Borchardt; The papal 'crusade' against Frederick II in 1228-1230, G. A. Loud; When ideology met reality: Clement V and the crusade, Sophia Menache; 1308 and 1177: Venice and the Papacy in real and imaginary crusades, David M. Perry; Papal claims to authority over lands gained from the Infidel: the Iberian peninsula and beyond the Straits of Gibraltar, Alan Forey; The papacy and the crusade in XVth century Portugal, Luis Adao De Fonseca, Maria Cristina Pimenta and Paula Pinto Costa. Part III L'Orient/The East: The papacy and the fourth crusade in the correspondence of the Nicaean emperors with the popes, Aphrodite Papayianni; A vacuum of leadership: 1291 revisited, James M. Powell; Crusading in a nearer East: the Balkan politics of Honorius III and Gregory IX (1221-1241), Francesco Dall'Aglio; La politique de soutien pontifical aux lignages nobiliaires moréotes aux XIIIe et XIVe siècles, Isabelle Ortega; La Papauté et les Hospitaliers de Rhodes aux lendemains de la chute de Constantinople (1453-1467), Pierre Bonneaud; Papauté, Latins d'Orient et croisés sous le regard de l'archevêque de Tarse, Nersês Lambronatsi, Isabelle Augé; Le rôle de la papauté dans la politique arménienne des Hospitaliers au XIVe siècle, Marie-Anna Chevalier. Part IV L'Europe du Nord et de L'Est/Northern and Eastern Europ

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