The Sword of Damocles over Charles II of Anjou: The Angevin Sovereign between Debt and Crusading Projects
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https://doi.org/10.6093/1593-2214/11165Keywords:
Middle Ages, 13th-14th centuries, Kingdom of Naples, Holy Land, Angevins, Charles II of Anjou, Boniface VIII, Crusade, TaxationAbstract
Between the Second Council of Lyon and the early decades of the 14th century, a distinct textual genre on the Crusades emerged and flourished, namely the treatises de recuperatione Terrae Sanctae. While some of these works have attracted substantial attention in recent historiography, others have remained comparatively neglected, among them the Conseill, a treatise composed in the late 13th century by Charles II of Anjou. This article offers a close examination of this text in order to clarify the purposes and the political and ecclesiastical context in which the Angevin ruler conceived his project, arguing that one of the principal motives that led him to write the Conseill was the considerable debt owed by his kingdom to the Holy See.
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