Boniface VIII, Philip the Fair, and the sanctity of Louis IX

Gaposchkin, M. Cecilia

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“…They were echoing, of course, waves of longing for previous reigns, just as Guillaume le Maire had regretted the good old days of Louis IX (as had Louis's posthumous biographer, Jean de Joinville). 85 In England, this kind of nostalgia could be articulated in political petitions. This was a period that saw an enormous growth in political participation.…”

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Nostalgia and (Pre‐)modernity

Skoda

2023

History and Theory

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This article argues that, in the fourteenth century, there was a wave of nostalgia that was provoked by extreme structural change: this was a moment of demographic catastrophe (with famine and plague), endemic warfare, economic fluctuation, intensified urbanization, and intellectual and spiritual novelties. Yet scholars from a range of disciplines have assumed that nostalgia and modernity are intimately connected. Given these framings of nostalgia as a modern phenomenon, this article seeks to explore the implications of premodern nostalgia. It begins by setting out the arguments for the intertwining of nostalgia and modernity. Some have argued that modernity brings a sense of rupture and that this produces nostalgia. Others, relatedly, have argued that modernity seems to speed up our experience of time and that this produces a nostalgia for a slower‐paced and more predictable past. I juxtapose these arguments with evidence of fourteenth‐century outpourings of nostalgia across a range of contexts in England, Italy, and France. I analyze examples of nostalgia in political contexts (both radical and reactionary), nostalgia for apparently lost economic orders, nostalgia for a lost set of chivalric values, and nostalgia for disrupted social orders. I then suggest that these fourteenth‐century manifestations of nostalgia were actually produced by precisely the features of the period that are usually deemed to be exclusive to modernity: it was rapid, rupturing structural change that provoked nostalgic regret. Nostalgia, then, would seem to indicate that there are features of the fourteenth century that might be deemed modern. However, rather than simply trying to therefore push back the moment of the birth of modernity, I argue that nostalgia is indicative of the problems of periodization. The presence of nostalgia across epochs—these echoes across the webs of time—suggest that lines of periodization, birthing moments, need to be treated with extreme caution. And it is appropriate that such a reminder should come from a phenomenon such as nostalgia, which is, after all, about resonances and echoes across time—resonances that are amplified, distorted, whispered even, but that all challenge and complicate any straightforward sense of either linear or cyclical time.

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Section: Fourteenth-century Nostalgiamentioning

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Nostalgia and (Pre‐)modernity

Skoda

2023

History and Theory

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War and peace in post-Albigensian Languedoc, 1250–1270

Firnhaber-Baker

2014

Violence and the State in Languedoc, 1250–1400

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From God's Peace to the King's Order: Late Medieval Limitations on Non-Royal Warfare

Firnhaber-Baker¹

2006

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One of the fundamental tasks of medieval kings was to be a peacemaker, that is, to settle disputes and to prevent new ones from arising. The later medieval kings of France, whose councilors probably thought more about kingship than anyone else would ever care to, took this task very seriously. Throughout the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the kings of France presented themselves to the world and to their subjects as arbiters of discord and guardians of peace. They did this through their personal work and that of their administrators and institutions in settling conflicts, but they also proceeded prescriptively by promulgating prohibitions or limitations of non-royal warfare. These ordinances outlawing the so-called "private" wars of nobles and other magnates have been considered, most notably by Aryeh Graboïs, as the culmination of a centuries-long development in the maintenance of order, one that began with the Peace of God Movement around the millennium and evolved into a royally directed program in the reigns of Louis VI and Louis VII. But if development and change have been observed in the ideas and practices intended to maintain peace from the eleventh to thirteenth centuries, this group of ordinances has not received as nuanced a treatment. Traditionally, in an approach that dates from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, these texts were considered a single body of legislation representing a coherent and consistent ideological program directed by the crown.2 Yet, these ordinances were issued over the course of more than a century, during which time eight kings held the scepter of France. Moreover, as Raymond Cazelles has argued, there is considerable evidence for disjuncture among these texts. Indeed, Cazelles went so far as to assert that the ordinances against non-royal warfare were not at all indicative of a consistent program but rather only ad hoc, unconnected measures meant to deal with temporary

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Boniface VIII, Philip the Fair, and the sanctity of Louis IX

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Nostalgia and (Pre‐)modernity

Nostalgia and (Pre‐)modernity

War and peace in post-Albigensian Languedoc, 1250–1270

From God's Peace to the King's Order: Late Medieval Limitations on Non-Royal Warfare

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