03062nam 2200673 a 450 99620821670331620200520144314.01-281-14532-797866111453230-19-152587-1(CKB)1000000000399664(EBL)415279(OCoLC)476241407(SSID)ssj0000148750(PQKBManifestationID)11149403(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000148750(PQKBWorkID)10225474(PQKB)10228694(StDuBDS)EDZ0000072316(MiAaPQ)EBC415279(Au-PeEL)EBL415279(CaPaEBR)ebr10271625(CaONFJC)MIL114532(EXLCZ)99100000000039966420060816d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEpiscopal elections 250-600[electronic resource] hierarchy and popular will in late antiquity /Peter NortonOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20071 online resource (284 p.)Oxford classical monographsDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-170870-4 0-19-920747-X Includes bibliographical references (p. [260]-266) and index.Legislation and theory -- The electorate : local communities and public disorder -- Imperial intervention -- Provinces and patriarchs : organizational structures -- The metropolitan system in the West -- The Eastern metropolitans -- Corruption, constraint, and nepotism -- Three disputed elections.A refutation of the conventional view that after the adoption of Christianity by the Roman empire the local community lost its voice in the appointment of bishops. Peter Norton argues that this right remained for longer than is normally assumed, with important consequences for our understanding of the administration of the later empire. - ;Peter Norton covers a topic of great relevance to students of early Church history and late antiquity alike. He challenges the conventional view that after the adoption of Christianity by the Roman empire the local community lost its voice in the appointmentOxford classical monographs.BishopsAppointment, call, and electionHistoryClergyAppointment, call, and electionHistoryChurch historyPrimitive and early church, ca. 30-600Election law (Canon law)Electronic books.BishopsAppointment, call, and electionHistory.ClergyAppointment, call, and electionHistory.Church historyElection law (Canon law)262/.1213Norton Peter1956-473002MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996208216703316Episcopal elections 250-600227381UNISA