Bishops under threat : contexts and episcopal strategies in the Late Antique and Early Medieval West /

Bishops under threat : contexts and episcopal strategies in the Late Antique and Early Medieval West /

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Imprint:	Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2023] ©2023
Description:	viii, 339 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte ; volume 150 Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte ; 150.
Subject:	Bishops -- Europe -- Temporal power -- History -- To 1500. Civilization, Medieval. Bishops -- Temporal power. Civilization, Medieval. Europe. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13119673

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Other authors / contributors:	Panzram, Sabine, editor. Poveda Arias, Pablo, editor.
ISBN:	9783110769531 3110769530 9783110778649 9783110778724
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"The late antique and the early medieval periods witnessed the flourishing of bishops in the West as the main articulators of social life. This influential position exposed them to several threats, both political and religious. Researchers have generally addressed violence, rebellions or conflicts to study the dynamics related to secular powers during these periods. They haven't paid similar attention, however, to those analogous contexts that had bishops as protagonists. This book proposes an approach to bishops as threatened subjects in the late antique and early medieval West. In particular, the volume pursues three main goals. Firstly, it aims to identify the different types of threats that bishops had to deal with. Then it sets out to frame these situations of adversity in their own contexts. Finally, it will address the episcopal strategies deployed to deal with such contexts of adversity. In sum, we aim to underline the impact that these contexts had as a dynamiting factor of episcopal action. Thus the episcopal threats may become a useful approach to study the bishops' relationships with other agents of power, the motivations behind their actions and - last but not least - for understanding the episcopal rising power."
Other form:	ebook version : 9783110778724
Standard no.:	9783110769531

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