Patterns of Episcopal power : bishops in tenth and eleventh century western Europe = Strukturen bischöflicher Herrschaftsgewalt im westlichen Europa des 10. und 11. Jahrhunderts / herausgegeben von = edited by Ludger Körntgen und Dominik Wassenhoven.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Körntgen, Ludger.

Wassenhoven, Dominik.

Conference Name:

International Medieval Congress (2009 : Leeds, England)

Series:

Prinz-Albert-Forschungen ; Bd. 6.

Prinz-Albert-Forschungen = Prince Albert research publications ; Bd. 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Episcopacy--History--Congresses.

Episcopacy.

Church and state--Europe--History--Congresses.

Church and state.

Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500--Congresses.

Church history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 millennium 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 medie

Contents:

Front matter

Preface / Körntgen, Ludger / Waßenhoven, Dominik

Contents

Abkürzungsverzeichnis/List of Abbreviations

Introduction / Körntgen, Ludger

A Europe of Bishops. The Age of Wulfstan of York and Burchard of Worms / Reuter, Timothy

Monition and Advice as Elements of Politics / Suchan, Monika

The Changing Political Horizons of gesta episcoporum from the Ninth to Eleventh Centuries / Riches, Theo

Bedrängte und belohnte Bischöfe. Recht und Politik als Parameter bischöflichen Handelns bei Willigis von Mainz und anderen / Hehl, Ernst-Dieter

Swaying Bishops and the Succession of Kings / Waßenhoven, Dominik

Bishops and Succession Crises in Tenth- and Eleventh-Century England / Cubitt, Catherine

Royal Women and Transitions. Emma and Ælfgifu in 1035-1042/1043 / Stafford, Pauline

Two Anglo-Saxon Bishops at Work. Wulfstan, Leofric and Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 190 / Hill, Joyce

Selective Bibliography on Bishops in Medieval Europe, from 1980 to the present day / Waßenhoven, Dominik / Messinger, Stephan

Autorenverzeichnis/List of Contributors

Notes:

Proceedings of a workshop held in Apr. 2009 at the University of Bayreuth and of a session of the International Medieval Congress held in July 2009 in Leeds, England.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786613402684

9781283402682

1283402688

9783110262032

3110262037

OCLC:

763156905