Ships, Souls, and the Administration of the Knights of St. John in the Fourteenth Century
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Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses Graduate School 2000 Ships, Souls, and the Administration of the Knights of St. John in the Fourteenth Century. Mark S. Dupuy Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_disstheses Recommended Citation Dupuy, Mark S., "Ships, Souls, and the Administration of the Knights of St. John in the Fourteenth Century." (2000). LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses. 7193. https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_disstheses/7193 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at LSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses by an authorized administrator of LSU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. INFORMATION TO USERS This manuscript has been reproduced from the microfilm master. 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Acknowledgments The debts associated with any dissertation tend to be many, varied, and often, beyond restitution of any meaningful sort; repayment generally occurs on pages such as these, where many debts simply go unpaid. No medieval book would be complete without a curse, and in such traditions, I say to the company Circuit City, which held my computer hostage for two and half months near the completion of this work - I curse thee. Anathema. Without my mother Loraine Dupuy, little else here matters. Hers are the lessons of Job and St Francis: to suffer with dignity and without questions, and to love without conditions. Some friends, colleagues, and fellow travelers must be mentioned: Mitchell MacNaylor, Tracey Kimbrell, Kent Hare, Steven Isaac, Don Kagay, and Andy Villalon, all offered comments, criticism, encouragement, or Concha Y Toro at various stages. Of the latter group, one requires singling out, Dr Theresa Vann, who read drafts - even the miserable, loathsome, and nearly unreadable first one - of this work; she has forced me to focus and has saved me from many errors. Randall Rogers read none of this work, but his fingerprints remain all over it. Drs Victor Stater and Christine Kooi have always been helpful during the latter stages of my graduate career, and Dr John Henderson graciously agreed to serve as a reader for this manuscript; many thanks to them all. Dr David Moore has always offered encouragement, and iii Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. near the end of this dissertation, an opportunity to work, for which I am eternally grateful. The staff and scholars of the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library provided funds for travel and research; more importantly, their institution emulates the finest traditions of Benedictine hospitality and scholarship, and one could not ask for an atmosphere more conducive to scholarly endeavors - thank you for your stories, Fr Gregory, especially the one about Kavanaugh and de Valera in Chicago. Maribel Dietz stepped in and performed yeoman-like work in a difficult situation as my advisor three years ago, for which she requires special mention. Finally, Alison McCubbin dealt gracefully and patiently with the demons summoned by this dissertation over the last four years; she has my gratitude and my love. And, if I'm not mistaken, my copy of Chesterton’s Napoleon ofNotting HilL Final mention here belongs collectively to Wayne Roca, S.J., Steve Schierling, and my father, Ellis Dupuy. Their lessons to me have been many and varied. Their greatest lessons came with their individual struggles with cancer, which claimed each of them within eight months of one another, and all within ten months of the completion of this work, which I wish all could have seen finished. Whatever is of value within it I owe to them; its mistakes and blunders are my own. iv Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Table of Contents Acknowledgments ........................................................................................................iii Abbreviations .............................................................................................................. viii Abstract ......................................................................................................................... xi Chapter One Introduction.............................................................................................. 1 Scope of the Study.................................................................................1 Sources..................................................................................................4 Issues and Questions..........................................................................10 Historiography....................................................................................14 Two Hospitaller History and Models of Governance................................. 23 Three The Libri bullarum magistrorum: Composition and History ............................................................................... 40 Modem Scholars and the Libri bullarum........................................ 41 The Administrative and Historical Context of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries..............................................50 Inception of theLibri bullarum.........................................................53 Form and Function............................................................................. 60 Conclusions......................................................................................... 79 Four At the Hand of the Master: Property and Authority...............................................................................................82 The Knights of St. John and the Twelfth Century Context............82 Monarchy and Oligarchy in the Hospital......................................... 85 Varieties of Property in the Hospital in the Fourteenth Century................................................................................................90 Use and Abuse in the Fourteenth Century..................................... 106 Conclusions........................................................................................ 120 v Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Five ‘All the long’s Men’: The Hospital, the Papacy, and the Secular Monarchies of the West...................................................................122 Pope and Master..............................................................................124 Clement V (1305-1314) .......................................................127 John XXH (1316-1334)........................................................128