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The Concordat of Nablus

1982; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 33; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0022046900030244

1469-7637

Hans Eberhard Mayer,

Medieval History and Crusades

On 23 January 1120, in the ancient town of Nablus in Samaria, Patriarch Warmund of Jerusalem and King Baldwin II of Jerusalem held a famous assembly of the highest dignitaries of the clergy and nobility. It has become known as the Council of Nablus, although it was not, strictly speaking, a church synod. Because of lay participation it was more of a parlement , or a Reichsversammlung , a kind of assembly common in all medieval kingdoms which would have been summoned to decide matters of general interest. William of Tyre gave it a whole chapter of his chronicle and stated that its decisions were so widely known that it was superfluous to enumerate them. He correctly called the assembly a conventus publicus et curia generalis , and only in the rubric to the chapter was its synodal character referred to: Apud Neapolim urbem Samariae concilium celebratur .