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Episcopal Elections 250-600: Hierarchy and Popular Will in Late Antiquity

Episcopal Elections 250-600: Hierarchy and Popular Will in Late Antiquity

Norton, Peter

Hardcover

Series: Oxford Classical Monographs

Religion General Ancient RomeGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 019920747X
ISBN13: 9780199207473
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Apr 19 2007
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.89 Width: 5.78 Depth: 8.66
Language: English
Peter Norton covers a topic of great relevance to students of early Church history and late antiquity alike. He challenges the conventional view that after the adoption of Christianity by the Roman empire the local community lost its voice in the appointment of bishops, and argues that this right remained in theory and practice for longer than is normally assumed. Given that bishops became important to the running of the empire at the local level, a proper understanding of how they came into office is essential for our understanding of the later empire.

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