TemplarCast Episode 1

On this episode of TemplarCast we discussed the trial of the French Templars by King Philip the Fair in the 14th century. This trial helped establish the French Monarch as a major power in Europe.

Bibliography:

Julien Théry. “A Heresy of State: Philip the Fair, the Trial of the “Perfidious Templars,” and the Pontificalization of the French Monarchy.” Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures 39, no. 2 (2013): 117-48. doi:10.5325/jmedirelicult.39.2.0117.

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Byzantine Christian Relations Episode 1

“A Review of “In Starvation’s Shadow: The Role of Logistics In The Strained Byzantine-European Relations During The First Crusade” by Gregory D. Bell. It was published in the journal The Byzantion in 2010. Bell argues how a lack of constant food supply to the Crusaders, was a catalyst for strained relations between the Crusaders and the Byzantines.”

Bell, Gregory D. “In Starvation’s Shadow: The Role of Logistics in the Strained Byzantine-European Relations During the First Crusade.” Byzantion 80 (2010): 38-71.