Two Swords
“It is not himself but his crimes that I hate.” You don't become pope in the fourteenth century without making a few enemies. In this episode, we explore the life, death, and posthumous witchcraft trial of Pope Boniface VIII. When church and state collide, who can stand?
Researched, written, and produced by Corinne Wieben, with original music by Purple Planet.
Music
Purple Planet - Seventh Curse
Frédéric Chopin - Nocturne in C sharp minor ‘Lento con gran espressione,’ B. 49 (Op. posth.), performed by Frank Levy
Purple Planet - Possession
Purple Planet - Red Mist
Purple Planet - Civilisation
Purple Planet - Sense of Loss
Purple Planet - Shadowlands
Sources
Primary
Alighieri, Dante. The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Vol. 1: Inferno, translated by Alan Mandelbaum. New York: Bantam Books, 1980.
Boniface VIII. “Asculta Fili,” translated by Brian Tierney. In The Crisis of Church and State 1050–1300, 185–187. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988.
Boniface VIII. “Unam Sanctam, 1302.” Internet History Sourcebook.
Council of Vienne 1311-1312 A.D. Papal Encyclicals Online.
Villani, Giovanni. Nuova chronica. Project Gutenberg.
William of Hundleby. “William of Hundleby's Account of the Anagni Outrage,” translated by H. G. J. Beck. Catholic Historical Review 32 (1947): 200-201.
Secondary
Bailey, Michael D. Fearful Sprits, Reasoned Follies: The Boundaries of Superstition in Late Medieval Europe. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013.
Brown, Elizabeth A. R. “Moral Imperatives and Conundrums of Conscience: Reflections on Philip the Fair of France.” Speculum 87, no. 1 (2012): 1–36.
Coste, Jean (ed). Boniface VIII en procès: Articles d’accusation et depositions des témoins (1303–1311). Rome: “L’Erma” di Bretschneider, 1995.
Curley, M. Mildred. “An Episode in the Conflict between Boniface VIII and Philip the Fair.” The Catholic Historical Review 13, no. 2 (1927): 194–226.
Denton, Jeffrey. “The Attempted Trial of Boniface VIII for Heresy.” In Judicial Trials in England and Europe, 1200–1700: The Trial in History, Vol. 1. edited by Maureen Mulholland and Brian Pullan, 117–128. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003.
Michelet, Jules. History of France, Vol. 1, translated by G. H. Smith. New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1860.
Théry, Julien. “A Heresy of State: Philip the Fair, the Trial of the ‘Perfidious Templars,’ and the Pontificalization of the French Monarchy.” Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures 39, no. 2 (2013): 117–48.
Tierney, Brian. The Crisis of Church and State 1050–1300. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988.
