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| Language: | Chinese |
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2026
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19675081 |
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- <p class="MsoNormal">This article examines the institutional positioning of military orders within the framework of canon law and its structural implications for subsequent judicial and political actions, focusing on papal bulls and related documents concerning the Templars from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries. It first analyzes how twelfth-century papal privileges concentrated the source of legitimacy within papal authority, thereby establishing a “single-source model of legitimacy.” Building on this foundation, the study then investigates the arrest order of 1307 and the Tours document of 1308, arguing that royal authority did not bypass canon law but instead operated within its constraints by combining theological discourse with judicial procedures to integrate the case into an ecclesiastical framework. The article further examines the three papal bulls issued in 1312, demonstrating that, in the absence of sufficient evidence for a definitive condemnation of heresy, the papacy suspended the judicial process and resorted to papal provisions to resolve the case across three levels: institutional dissolution, redistribution of property, and individual adjudication. It argues that the suppression of the Templars should not be understood merely as political intervention or judicial failure, but rather as a structural outcome shaped by a highly centralized model of legitimacy. This model constrained not only royal action but also, to a certain extent, the range of papal responses, revealing the internal logic of legitimacy within the late medieval canon law system.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">This is a preprint version. The author intends to submit this work for peer-reviewed publication.</p>