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Before church and state : a study of social order in the sacramental kingdom of St. Louis IX /

Before Church and State: A Study of Social Order in the Sacramental Kingdom of St. Louis IX by Andrew Willard Jones explores in great detail the 'problem of church and state' in thirteenth-century France. It argues that while the spiritual and temporal powers existed, they were not paralle...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jones, Andrew Willard, 1980- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Steubenville, Ohio : Emmaus Academic, [2017].
Subjects:
Louis > IX, > King of France, > 1214-1270.
Clement > IV, > Pope, > -1268.
France > Politics and government > 1226-1270.
Church and state > France > History > To 1500.
Church and state > History of doctrines > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Social structure > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Catholic Church > Foreign relations > France.
France > Foreign relations > Catholic Church.
France > Church history > 987-1515.
Church history > 13th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Church and state?
  • Part I: The business of the peace and the faith: Enemies of the faith and of the peace
  • Enemies of the King and the Church
  • For the extirpation of heretical depravity and for the conservation of the peace
  • From the duty of royal power
  • Desiring that the King not gain some advantage from this violance
  • Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O thou most powerful (Ps 44)
  • Part II: Counsel and aid: The Lord King orders that the plain truth be found
  • The spiritual and the temporal
  • Counsel and aid
  • In the fullness of royal power
  • Part III: The fullness of papal power: In the image of the Proconsul
  • With the counsel and assent of the King
  • Sede vacante
  • Part IV: Conclusions: St. Thomas Aquinas and the "Most Christian kingdom": The new law and the two swords
  • The most Christian kingdom.