The bishop reformed : studies of episcopal power and culture in the central Middle Ages
In the period following the collapse of the Carolingian Empire up to the Fourth Lateran Council (1215), the episcopate everywhere in Europe experienced substantial and important change, brought about by a variety of factors: the pressures of ecclesiastical reform; the devolution and recovery of royal authority; the growth of papal involvement in regional matters and in diocesan administration; the emergence of the "crowd" onto the European stage around 1000 and the proliferation of autonomous municipal governments; the explosion of new devotional and religious energies; the expansion of Christendom's borders; and the proliferation of new monastic orders and new forms of religious life, among other changes. This socio-political, religious, economic, and cultural ferment challenged bishops, often in unaccustomed ways. How did the medieval bishop, unquestionably one of the most powerful figures of the Middle Ages, respond to these and other historical changes?
History
xiv, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780754657651, 0754657655
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Introduction : the bishop reformed / John S. Ott and Anna Trumbore Jones
Lay magnates, religious houses, and the role of the bishop in Aquitaine (877-1050) / Anna Trumbore Jones
Bishops and religious law, 900-1050 / Greta Austin
Sovereignty and social order : Archbishop Wulfstan and the Institutes of polity / Renée R. Trilling
The image of the bishop in the Middle Ages / Eric Palazzo
Building the body of the church : a bishop's blessing in the benedictional of Engilmar of Parenzo / Evan A. Gatti
Bishop Gerard I of Cambrai-Arras, the three orders, and the problem of human weakness / T.M. Riches
'Both Mary and Martha' : Bishop Lietbert of Cambrai and the construction of Episcopal sanctity in a border diocese around 1100 / John S. Ott
Driving the chariot of the Lord : Siegfried I of Mainz (1060-1084) and Episcopal identity in an age of transition / John Eldevik
Pastoral care as military action : the ecclesiology of Archbishop Alfanus I of Salerno (1058-1085) / Valerie Ramseyer
What made Ivo mad? : reflections on a medieval bishop's anger / Bruce C. Brasington
The Bishops of Piacenza, their cathedral, and the reform of the church / Dorothy F. Glass
Urban space, sacred topography, and ritual meanings in Florence : the route of the bishops entry, c. 1200-1600 / Maureen C. Miller
Postscript : the ambiguous bishop / Thomas Head
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