IMC 2007: Sessions

Session 1108: The Trial of the Templars, 1307-2007, VI: The Trial in Italy and the Mediterranean

Wednesday 11 July 2007, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:	Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, Minnesota
Organiser:	Helen J. Nicholson, School of History, Archaeology & Religion, Cardiff University
Moderator/Chair:	Anne Gilmour-Bryson, Department of History, Trinity Western University, British Columbia
Paper 1108-a	The Templars and their Trial in Sicily (Language: English) Kristjan Toomaspoeg, Università degli Studi di Lecce Index terms: Canon Law, Crusades, Ecclesiastical History, Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 1108-b	Rinaldo da Concorezzo and the Trial of the Templars in North Italy (Language: English) Elena Bellomo, Department of History, Rutgers University, New Jersey Index terms: Canon Law, Crusades, Ecclesiastical History, Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 1108-c	Testimony of Non-Templar Witnesses at the Trial of the Iberian Peninsula, 1309-1310 (Language: English) Magda Saura, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona Josep Maria Sans Trave, Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya, International University of Barcelona
Abstract	This sixth of eight sessions in commemoration of the arrest of the Templars in 1307 considers the trial of the Order in Sicily and northern Italy, and the Templars in Greece. Although Italy was an important centre for the Templars, the trial in the Italian peninsula has not received as much attention from scholars as that in France, while the Templars' history in Greece is largely unknown to western scholars. This session will make a contribution towards redressing these deficiencies. A fourth paper in this session, if the speaker is able to attend, will consider the work of an early modern Italian historian of the trial.