The Recovery of the Holy Land.
Records of Civilization, Sources and Studies- #51
by Pierre Dubois
Translated with an introduction and notes by Walther I. Brandt.
Published by Columbia University Press, New York, 1956. First Edition. Good hardcover, no dustjacket. Tight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text, pencil notes & previous owner’s signature to front endpaper, dampstining to top edge has left slight wrinkling to tops of pages. 8vo, index, 251 pages.
Pierre Dubois (c. 1255 – after 1321), a French publicist in the reign of Philip the Fair, was the author of a series of political pamphlets embodying original and daring views.
Dubois was known to Jean du Tillet in the 16th, and to Pierre Dupuy in the 17th century, but remained practically forgotten until the middle of the 19th century, when his history was reconstructed from his works. He was a Norman by birth, probably a native of Coutances, where he exercised the functions of royal advocate of the bailliage and procurator of the university.
14th Century European politics, Templars, Boniface VII, Papal reform, clerical celibacy, confiscation of ecclesiastical property, reform of monasticism, conversion of nunneries into schools fo nurses and surgeons, colonization.
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The Recovery of the Holy Land.
Records of Civilization, Sources and Studies- #51
by Pierre Dubois
Translated with an introduction and notes by Walther I. Brandt.
Published by Columbia University Press, New York, 1956. First Edition. Good hardcover, no dustjacket. Tight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text, pencil notes & previous owner’s signature to front endpaper, dampstining to top edge has left slight wrinkling to tops of pages. 8vo, index, 251 pages.
Pierre Dubois (c. 1255 – after 1321), a French publicist in the reign of Philip the Fair, was the author of a series of political pamphlets embodying original and daring views.
Dubois was known to Jean du Tillet in the 16th, and to Pierre Dupuy in the 17th century, but remained practically forgotten until the middle of the 19th century, when his history was reconstructed from his works. He was a Norman by birth, probably a native of Coutances, where he exercised the functions of royal advocate of the bailliage and procurator of the university.
14th Century European politics, Templars, Boniface VII, Papal reform, clerical celibacy, confiscation of ecclesiastical property, reform of monasticism, conversion of nunneries into schools fo nurses and surgeons, colonization.
Loc: ONE
