Bishops under Threat : : Contexts and Episcopal Strategies in the Late Antique and Early Medieval West / / ed. by Pablo Poveda Arias, Sabine Panzram.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Cristini, Marco,; Cubitt, Katy,; Dumézil, Bruno,; Díaz, Pablo C.,; Escalona, Julio,; Grotherr, Kevin,; Horst, Martin,; Mossong, Isabelle,; Mériaux, Charles,; Panzram, Sabine,; Poveda Arias, Pablo,; Vallejo Girvés, Margarita,; Veronese, Francesco,; Winckler, Katharina,; Wood, Ian,
• HerausgeberIn: Panzram, Sabine,; Poveda Arias, Pablo,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte , 150
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (IX, 339 p.)

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

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Bishops Under Threat – Between Ascetics and “Combative Creatures” -- Part One: Threatening Episcopal Authority: Jurisdiction and Territory -- Threatening Metropolitan Authority in Fifth-Century Gaul -- Between Royal Power and Legitimacy – The Bishops of Mérida (6th– 7th c.) -- Bishops under Pressure: Priests and Episcopal Authority in Carolingian Francia -- Episcopal Authority and Diocesan Structure in England (c. 650–1050) -- Suspicious Minds: Bishops without Seat and Canonical Bishops in Eighth-Century Bavaria -- The Tenth-Century Castilian Church in the Wider Iberian Context: The Large Gap between Ideal and Reality -- Part Two: Bishops and Politics -- Burgundians and Bishops -- Sailing to Byzantium: Sixth-Century Popes under Threat in Constantinople -- Victims, Actors or Spectators? The Bishops of the Merovingian Kingdom during the Civil War of 575–613 -- Bishops, Relics and Multi-Directional Pressures in Carolingian Northern Italy: The Cases of Verona and Milan -- Part Three: Individualising Threats and Strategies -- Italy’s Late Antique Bishops in Exile (3rd–Beginning of 7th c.): The Epigraphic Point of View -- Bishops between Reform and Heresy: Priscillian, Martin of Tours and Magnus Maximus -- Bishop Licinianus of Carthago Spartaria, The Monastery of Asán and the Struggle between Visigoths and Byzantines -- Dumio-Braga. A Functional Duality, a Legal Anomaly -- List of Contributors -- Index of Places, Names and Subjects