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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812846803321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston, : De Gruyter, c2011

ISBN

1-283-40268-8

9786613402684

3-11-026203-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (228 p.)

Collana

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

Altri autori (Persone)

KörntgenLudger

WassenhovenDominik

Disciplina

262/.1209409021

Soggetti

Episcopacy - History

Church and state - Europe - History

Church history - Middle Ages, 600-1500

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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