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

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...

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Main Authors: Panzram, Sabine 1970- (Author, Editor), Poveda Arias, Pablo (Author, Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston De Gruyter [2023]
Series:Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte volume 150
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
Item Description:"Because of the Coronavirus pandemic, the conference - which was originally supposed to have been held in Hamburg's Warburg House from 25 to 27 July 2020 - had to be postponed until 24 to 26 June 2021 and to take place virtually." (Preface and Acknowledgements, S. V)
Physical Description:VIII, 339 Seiten
ISBN:9783110769531

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