Robert of Nantes, Patriarch of Jerusalem (1240-1254)

This is the first book-length biography of any of the Latin patriarchs of Jerusalem.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1 - Origins
Chapter 2 - "A bishop in Apulia"
Chapter 3 - Bishop of Nantes
Chapter 4 - Patriarchal election in Jerusalem
Chapter 5 - Patriarch and papal legate in the east
Chapter 6 - The Crusade of Louis IX
Chapter 7 - Seignor temporel and seignor espirituel
Chapter 8 - Epilogue
Conclusion
Bibliography

About the author

Adam M. Bishop holds a PhD from the University of Toronto (2011). His thesis was on the development of the legal system of the Frankish Kingdom of Jerusalem, and he has published research on the legal treatises of Jerusalem and Cyprus. In 2011-2012, he was a post-doctoral researcher at the Université de Nantes, working on the European Research Council project "Religious Minorities in the Euro-Mediterranean world, 5th-15th Centuries." He is currently an independent scholar living in London, Ontario, Canada.

Summary

This is the first book-length biography of any of the Latin patriarchs of Jerusalem.

Product details

• Authors: Adam M. Bishop
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2024
• EAN: 9781032267043
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3226704-3
• No. of pages: 196
• Series: Rulers of the Latin East
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Jerusalem, RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious, Middle East, Biography: religious & spiritual, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, Biography: religious and spiritual, 13th century, c 1200 to c 1299, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Arab & Middle Eastern, Crusades;Jerusalem;History;Robert of Nantes;Clerics