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IMC 2007: Sessions

Session 808: The Trial of the Templars, 1307-2007, IV: Using Evidence from the Trial as Historical Evidence

Tuesday 10 July 2007, 16.30-18.00

Organiser:Helen J. Nicholson, School of History, Archaeology & Religion, Cardiff University
Moderator/Chair:Sophia Menache, Department of History, University of Haifa
Paper 808-aThree 'Traitors' of the Temple: Was their Truth the Whole Truth?
(Language: English)
David Bryson, University of Melbourne
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Monasticism, Religious Life
Paper 808-bIcons, Crosses, and the Liturgical Objects of Templar Chapels in the Crown of Aragon
(Language: English)
Sebastián Salvadó, Department of Art, Stanford University
Index terms: Art History - General, Crusades, Ecclesiastical History, Religious Life
Paper 808-cPriests of the Order of the Temple: What Can They Tell Us?
(Language: English)
Anne Gilmour-Bryson, Department of History, Trinity Western University, British Columbia
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Liturgy, Monasticism, Religious Life
Abstract

This fourth of eight sessions in commemoration of the arrest of the Templars in 1307 exploits the evidence from the proceedings of the trial of Templars, asking how far this evidence can be used to widen historical knowledge of the Order, and how far it should be used with caution.