Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Abbreviations
- Chronology
- Preface
- Introduction
- Appendix to Introduction Deconstructing: Close Reading, Rhetorical Criticism, and Historiography of Persecution and Heresy
- 1 The Lord's Vineyard in the Twelfth Century
- 2 Monastic Spirituality and Literature: the Domestic Vineyard
- 3 Bernard of Clairvaux, the 1143/44 Sermons and the 1145 Preaching Mission: From the Domestic to the Lord's Vineyard
- 4 Henry of Clairvaux, the 1178 and 1181 Missions, and the Campaign against the Waldensians: Driving the Foxes from the Vineyard
- 5 Innocent III's Papacy and the Crusade Years, 1198–1229: Weeding the Vineyard
- 6 Hélinand of Froidmont and the Events of 1229: Planting Virtues in the Vineyard
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Title in the series
6 - Hélinand of Froidmont and the Events of 1229: Planting Virtues in the Vineyard
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Abbreviations
- Chronology
- Preface
- Introduction
- Appendix to Introduction Deconstructing: Close Reading, Rhetorical Criticism, and Historiography of Persecution and Heresy
- 1 The Lord's Vineyard in the Twelfth Century
- 2 Monastic Spirituality and Literature: the Domestic Vineyard
- 3 Bernard of Clairvaux, the 1143/44 Sermons and the 1145 Preaching Mission: From the Domestic to the Lord's Vineyard
- 4 Henry of Clairvaux, the 1178 and 1181 Missions, and the Campaign against the Waldensians: Driving the Foxes from the Vineyard
- 5 Innocent III's Papacy and the Crusade Years, 1198–1229: Weeding the Vineyard
- 6 Hélinand of Froidmont and the Events of 1229: Planting Virtues in the Vineyard
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Title in the series
Summary
Previous chapters have centred on Cistercian preachers, legates, bishops, an archbishop, and a cardinal – the foremost ‘clerics of the crusade’, as the Dominican historian M.–H.Vicaire called them. The Cistercian role continued but diminished somewhat after the first decade or so of the crusade: Innocent III, who had urged the white monks toward action, died in 1216; Arnaud Amaury in 1225; Guy of les Vaux-de-Cernay in 1223. A few Cistercian legates were appointed after these men, but during the last years of the crusade, Romano of St Angelo served as legate and presided over the implementation of the 1229 treaty's provisions. Bishop Fulk of Toulouse still held his see but had spent at least fifteen years in exile, including the period 1217–29. As war drew to a close, the Cistercian abbot of Grandselve, Hélie Garin, helped the negotiations. Then, at the termination of hostilities, another Cistercian came to centre stage: Hélinand of Froidmont, a former trouvère from the abbey of Froidmont in Beauvais. Poet, monk, historian, encyclopaedist, preacher and social critic, Hélinand joined the Cistercian campaign against heresy at its end and played a crucial role at a decisive moment: the events surrounding the Treaty of Paris/Meaux, confirmed on 12 April 1229. Serving as neither military adviser nor legate nor bishop, Hélinand apparently came primarily to preach. He addressed two important assemblies in 1229, giving the inaugural sermon for the nascent university and delivering the opening and closing sermons for the synod that regulated the tenuous peace.
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- Cistercians, Heresy and Crusade in Occitania, 1145–1229Preaching in the Lord's Vineyard, pp. 174 - 201Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2001