The Mise of Amiens and Saint-Louis' Theory of Kingship

Because the Mise of Amiens was the arbitral judgment in which Louis IX attempted to quash the Provisions of Oxford, French medievalists have seldom examined it with care. For them, it has seemed little more than an incident from English history, and therefore unworthy of comment. At the same time, however, British medievalists have proved equally negligent. After all, the Mise reflects only the views of a foreigner, and it certainly did nothing to end the disputes between Henry III and his barons. One might expect that constitutional historians would have seized on this judgment as a wonderful opportunity to attack the absolutist proclivities of the French, but the fact is that the few and rather brief interpretations available have been remarkably restrained. Even Bishop Stubbs, so often criticized for bias in recent years, found it possible to be judicious: The king of France had his own idea of the dignity of royalty, and was too humble and charitable not to credit other men with the same

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• The Problem of King Louis IX of France

  Jennifer R Davis•The Journal of Interdisciplinary…•2010

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