Episcopal Elections in Late Antiquity / / ed. by Johan Leemans, Peter Van Nuffelen, Shawn W. J. Keough, Carla Nicolaye.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Allen, Pauline,; Alpi, Frédéric,; Alt, Daniel,; Barnes, Timothy David,; Bevan, George A.,; Blaudeau, Philippe,; Bruns, Peter,; Dam, Raymond Van,; Dekker, Renate,; Dumézil, Bruno,; Dunn, Geoffrey D.,; Fatti, Federico,; Haensch, Rudolf,; Hihn, Oliver,; Hornung, Christian,; Hunter, David G.,; Keough, Shawn W. J.,; Kim, Young Richard,; Leemans, Johan,; Loftus, Susan,; Mardirossian, Aram,; Maxwell, Jaclyn,; Nuffelen, Peter Van,; Rist, Josef,; Rosenberger, Veit,; Shchuryk, Oleh,; Thier, Andreas,; Viezure, Dana luliana,; Waarden, Johannes A. van,; Wipszycka, Ewa,; Wirbelauer, Eckhard,
• HerausgeberIn: Keough, Shawn W. J.,; Leemans, Johan,; Nicolaye, Carla,; Van Nuffelen, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte , 119
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (606 p.)

The present volume contributes to a reassessment of the phenomenon of episcopal elections from the broadest possible perspective, examining the varied combination of factors, personalities, rules and habits that played a role in the process that eventually resulted in one specific candidate becoming...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Preface
• Table of Contents
• Episcopal Elections in Late Antiquity: Structures and Perspectives
• Keynote Lectures
• Episcopal Succession in Antioch in the Sixth Century
• The Election of Ambrose of Milan
• Theodoret of Cyrrhus and Syrian Episcopal Elections
• L’élection d’archevêques diphysites au trône alexandrin (451-482): une désignation artificielle et contrainte?
• Bischofswahl und Bischofsernennung im Synodicon Orientale
• La royauté mérovingienne et les élections épiscopales au VIe siècle
• Canonical Legislation on the Ordination of Bishops: Innocent I’s Letter to Victricius of Rouen
• Christlicher Euergetismus ob honorem? Die Einsetzung von Klerikern in ihre Ämter und die von diesen vorangetriebenen Bauprojekte
• Clerical Marriage and Episcopal Elections in the Latin West: From Siricius to Leo I
• The Saint and the Bishop: Severinus of Noricum
• Bishops and Clerics during the Fourth Century: Numbers and Their Implications
• The Rhetoric of Rules and the Rule of Consensus
• Les élections épiscopates en Égypte aux VIe- VIIe siècles
• Bischofswahlen in Rom (3.-6. Jh.): Bedingungen – Akteure – Verfahren
• Short Papers
• Les élections épiscopales en Orient sous Sévère d’Antioche (512-518)
• ...ut sancto sanctus succederet... oder: Haben Heilige eine Wahl? Ein Ausblick auf die frühmittelalterliche Bischofserhebung in den Viten heiliger Bischöfe
• Bishop Pesynthios of Koptos (Egypt): “He did not pursue the honour, but it was the honour that pursued him”
• An Extraordinary Bishop: Eusebius of Caesarea in Cappadocia
• The Election and Deposition of Meletius of Antioch: The Fall of an Integrative Bishop
• Haeres Petri: Kontinuitat und Wandel in der Bischofsnachfolge des Siricius von Rom
• Episcopal Succession as Criterion of Communion: The Rise of Rival Episcopal Genealogies in Alexandria according to Liberatus of Carthage
• Epiphanius of Cyprus vs. John of Jerusalem: An Improper Ordination and the Escalation of the Origenist Controversy
• Episcopal Elections in Gaul: The Normative View of the Concilia Galliae versus the Narrative Accounts
• Ecclesia non abhorret a sanguine. Les élections épiscopales dans l’Église arménienne aux IVe-Ve siècles
• Education, Humility and Choosing Ideal Bishops in Late Antiquity
• Zum Beispiel Proklos von Konstantinopel. Über Chancen und Grenzen des spätantiken Bischofsamtes
• The Election of Sahak I as Catholicos of the Armenian Church
• Procedure and Hierarchy: Models of Episcopal Election in Late Antique Conciliar and Papal Rule making
• Episcopal Self-Presentation: Sidonius Apollinaris and the Episcopal Election in Bourges AD 470
• The Election of Paul the Jew (519) in Light of the Theopaschite Controversy
• List of Authors
• Indices