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Patterns of Episcopal Power: Bishops in Tenth and Eleventh Century Western Europe

Patterns of Episcopal Power: Bishops in Tenth and Eleventh Century Western Europe

Hardcover

Series: Prinz-Albert-Forschungen, Book 6

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryReligion General German History

ISBN10: 3110262029
ISBN13: 9783110262025
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: Aug 18 2011
Pages: 226
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

In medieval Europe, the death of a king could not only cause a dispute about the succession, but also a severe crisis. In times of a vacant throne particular responsibility fell to the bishops - whose general importance for the time around the first milennium has been revealed by recent scholarship - as royal counsellors and policy makers. This volume therefore concentrates on the bishops' room for manoeuvre and the patterns of episcopal power, focusing on the Eastern Frankish Reich and Anglo-Saxon England in a comparative approach which is not least based upon the research of a renowned medievalist, Timothy Reuter. His article about A Europe of Bishops (Ein Europa der Bischöfe) is presented in English translation for the first time.

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