Men at the Center: Redemptive Governance under Louis IX

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111 Chapter One 1 I have treated the matters discussed in this and the following paragraph while addressing the particular fate of one monastery in the region in Jordan, “Ardennais Monastery of Élan,” 127–40. 2 Many of the details on the life of Robert of Sorbon are drawn from volume I of Palémon Glorieux’s Aux origines de la Sorbonne, which has the separate title Robert de Sorbonne: l’homme, le collège, les documents, 9–67. Félix Chambon’s briefer sketch in his introductory remarks to his edition of Robert’s De Conscientia et De Tribus Dietis, v–vii, is not always trustworthy on details, but remains useful, and I have used it with caution. 3 Glorieux, Aux origines de la Sorbonne, I, 13–14; Ladvocat, Dictionnaire historique-portatif, II, 526. 4 In referring to Robert as Robert of Sorbon I have adopted what I think is a valuable American convention. I use the English preposition ‘of’ before a place name that forms part of a northern French personal name when the person under discussion was nonnoble , like Robert. I use the French form ‘de’ when the man or woman mentioned was of noble status. This is why the principal subject of Chapter Three is identified as Simon de Nesle. When referring to such nobles’ lands apart from their personal names, however, I go back to ‘of’: Simon de Nesle is thus referred to interchangeably as the lord of Nesle. For the few nobles not of northern French birth mentioned in the book I adopt the traditional usage, ‘of’ (Blanche of Castile, Marguerite of Provence, and so forth). 5 Glorieux, Aux origines de la Sorbonne, I, 14, 25–26, 30. 6 Glorieux, Aux origines de la Sorbonne, I, 24–25; Anciennes bibliothèques . . . Paris, I, 222. 7 Glorieux, Aux origines de la Sorbonne, I, 25. 8 Glorieux, Aux origines de la Sorbonne, I, 48–51; Hauréau, “Propos de maître Robert de Sorbon,” 141–48; Diekstra, “Robert de Sorbon’s Qui vult,” 215–72 (especially p. 257, “non deberet aliquis habere nomen Christiani et facere opera Sarraceni”). Notes book.indd 111 2012-09-12 15:39:29 112 9 Glorieux, Aux origines de la Sorbonne, I, 17–18. 10 Among the materials for writing this are the succession of monuments erected in Sorbon—and their fate—as well as children’s stories. For the former, see Les Ardennes françaises, no. 33 (September 1930), 551, and for an example of the latter, F.-C. Gérard’s Petit Jéhan. 11 Le Goff, Saint Louis, 425. 12 On the whole experience of preaching as it pertains to Louis IX, see Jordan, “Louis IX: Preaching to Franciscan and Dominican Brothers and Nuns,” 219–35; on the dialogical aspect, see p. 229. 13 See Glorieux, Aux origines de la Sorbonne, I, 26–27, for an expert summary of Robert’s views, abstracted from his treatises and sermons. 14 Cf. Anciennes bibliothèques . . . Paris, I, 222. Glorieux, Aux origines de la Sorbonne, I, 29, is agnostic on the possible role of Count Robert d’Artois. 15 Glorieux, Aux origines de la Sorbonne, I, 12 n. 6. 16 Legros and Mathey-Maille, Légende de Robert le Diable; Herzman, Drake and Salisbury, “Havelock the Dane.” 17 Glorieux, Aux origines de la Sorbonne, I, 12 n. 6. 18 Glorieux, Aux origines de la Sorbonne, I, 12 n. 6. 19 Whether she was the author of the lyrics of the song, “Amours ou trop tard me sui pris,” is still disputed, but the thirteenth-century attribution proves that her near contemporaries thought her capable of the composition. Sivéry, Blanche de Castille, 14 and 19; Maillard, Roi-trouvère, 27 and 67–68; Bédier, “Feuillet récemment retrouvé,” 912–15. 20 Glorieux, Aux origines de la Sorbonne, I, 28. See also Anciennes bibliothèques . . . Paris, I, 222. 21 La Selle, “La confession et l’aumône,” 262–63; La Selle, Service des âmes à la cour, 37, 40–42, 73, 99. 22 Glorieux, Aux origines de la Sorbonne, I, 46. See also Anciennes bibliothèques . . . Paris, I, 222. 23 Anciennes bibliothèques . . . Paris, I, 222. book.indd 112 2012-09-12 15:39:29 113 24 La Selle, Service des âmes à la cour, 41. 25 Jordan, Louis IX and the Challenge of the Crusade, 65–104. 26 Cf. Jean de Joinville, Vie de saint Louis, para. 140. 27 Glorieux...