RT Article
T1 The Concordat of Nablus
JF The journal of ecclesiastical history
VO 33
IS 4
SP 531
OP 543
A1 Mayer, Hans Eberhard
LA English
PB Cambridge Univ. Press
YR 1982
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1784748021
AB 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.
DO 10.1017/S0022046900030244