Based on a series of his lectures given at the Central European University in November 2011, this book explores the lives of three courtiers to
Louis IX, the monarch of France for much of the thirteenth century.
The frontispiece was anchored to the chronicle's account of Louis' life because only one of these subjects (
Louis IX washing the feet of the poor; see Fig.
I would like to thank history,
Louis IX and teachers who understand the importance of spanning art across the curriculum.
Among the most enlightening are those of: Richard and Saladin; the blind Venetian Doge, Dandolo;
Louis IX of France; Mesilende, the Queen of Jerusalem who was a 'woman of unusual wisdom and discretion' who exercised great influence in a very masculine age; and the Emperor Frederick II, the excommunicated crusader who (mainly through his time in Sicily) was closest to the culture of the Saracens.
(173) Moreover, translation and/or editing mistakes lead to substantive errors: "
Louis ix" is at least twice rendered as "Louis XI" (18, 168); Diderot's Lettre sur les aveugles is said to summarize D'Alembert's article "Aveugle" in the Encyclopedie (175-76) -in reality it is D'Alembert's article that borrows from Diderot, as Weygand's original text makes clear (223).
Dafydd ap Llywelyn created continental alliances - with King
Louis IX of France and with Pope Innocent IV - which, at one time, looked like confirming Wales' independence as a state under the Pope's protection.
The papal instruction is ignored, except by the bishops of France, and particularly of Paris, with the full backing of the reigning monarch,
Louis IX.
31) far too literally, and his seeming unawareness that the historical template for such claims stretches continuously back to the Saint-King
Louis IX himself in the 13th Century.
Maupassant says that
Louis IX (1214-1270) was a saint (Pope Boniface VIII canonized him in 1297).
It was noted that the Society had met the previous year in an American city named for King
Louis IX, and was concluding its 2009 meeting in
Louis IX's chapel in the royal castle that he had expanded in 1238.
Louis after King
Louis IX of France, although it was on Spanish soil.