03900nam 22006015 450 991080926160332120240102113121.01-5017-3932-810.7591/9781501739323(CKB)4100000009040501(MiAaPQ)EBC5851455(OCoLC)1073896205(MdBmJHUP)muse75880(DE-B1597)527442(DE-B1597)9781501739323(EXLCZ)99410000000904050120200406h20192019 fg engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBishops and the Politics of Patronage in Merovingian Gaul /Gregory I. HalfondIthaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]©20191 online resource (220 pages)Online version: Halfond, Gregory I., author. Bishops and the politics of patronage in Merovingian Gaul Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2019 9781501739323 (DLC) 2018055361 Online version: Halfond, Gregory I., author. Bishops and the politics of patronage in Merovingian Gaul Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2019 9781501739323 (DLC) 2018060253 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Map -- Introduction -- 1. Episcopal Service to the Court -- 2. Royal Patronage and Its Benefits -- 3. Unity in Disunity: The Limits of Corporate Solidarity -- 4. Disunity in Unity: Territorial Integration and Its Effects -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- IndexFollowing the dissolution of the Western Roman Empire, local Christian leaders were confronted with the problem of how to conceptualize and administer their regional churches. As Gregory Halfond shows, the bishops of post-Roman Gaul oversaw a transformation in the relationship between church and state. He shows that by constituting themselves as a corporate body, the Gallic episcopate was able to wield significant political influence on local, regional, and kingdom-wide scales.Gallo-Frankish bishops were conscious of their corporate membership in an exclusive order, the rights and responsibilities of which were consistently being redefined and subsequently expressed through liturgy, dress, physical space, preaching, and association with cults of sanctity. But as Halfond demonstrates, individual bishops, motivated by the promise of royal patronage to provide various forms of service to the court, often struggled, sometimes unsuccessfully, to balance their competing loyalties. However, even the resulting conflicts between individual bishops did not, he shows, fundamentally undermine the Gallo-Frankish episcopate's corporate identity or integrity. Ultimately, Halfond provides a far more subtle and sophisticated understanding of church-state relations across the early medieval period.FrancePolitics and governmentTo 987EpiscopacyHistoryMerovingiansChurch and stateGaulBishopsPolitical activityGaulBishopsGaulTemporal powerFranceChurch historyTo 987church history, late antiquity, Franks, Francia.FrancePolitics and governmentEpiscopacyHistory.Merovingians.Church and stateBishopsPolitical activityBishopsTemporal power.274.4/02Halfond Gregory I., authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1099385DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910809261603321Bishops and the Politics of Patronage in Merovingian Gaul3919932UNINA