Bishops Identities Careers And Networks In Medieval Europe

Author : Sarah Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2503579108

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Bishops' Identities, Careers, and Networks in Medieval Europe by Sarah Thomas Pdf

Examines the identities and networks of bishops in medieval Europe. Bishops were powerful individuals who had considerable spiritual, economic, and political power. They were not just religious leaders; they were important men who served kings and lords as advisers and even diplomats. They also controlled large territories and had significant incomes and people at their command. The nature of the international Church also meant that they travelled and had connections well beyond their home countries, were players on an increasingly international stage, and were key conduits for the transfer of ideas. This volume examines the identities and networks of bishops in medieval Europe. The fifteen papers explore how senior clerics attained their bishoprics through their familial, social, and educational networks, their career paths, relationships with secular lords, and the papacy. It brings together research on bishops in central, southern, and northern Europe, by early career and established scholars. The first part features five case-studies of individual bishops' identities, careers, and networks. Then we turn to examine contact with the papacy and its role in three regions: northern Italy, the archbishopric of Split, and Sweden. Part III focuses on five main issues: royal patronage, reforming bishops, nepotism, social mobility, and public assemblies. Finally Part IV explores how episcopal networks in Poland, Siguenza, and the Nidaros church province helped candidates achieve promotion. These contributions will thus enhance of our understanding of how bishops fit into the religious, political, social, and cultural fabrics of medieval Europe.

Author : Beata Możejko,Anna Paulina Orłowska,Leslie Carr-Riegel
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000839142

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Networking in Late Medieval Central Europe by Beata Możejko,Anna Paulina Orłowska,Leslie Carr-Riegel Pdf

Exploring the formation of networks across late medieval Central Europe, this book examines the complex interaction of merchants, students, artists, and diplomats in a web of connections that linked the region. These individuals were friends in business ventures, occasionally families, and not infrequently foes. No single activity linked them, but rather their interconnectivity through matrices based in diverse modalities was key. Partnerships were not always friendship networks, art was sometimes passed between enemies, and families created for financial gain. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the chapters focus on inclusion and exclusion within intercultural networks, both interpersonal and artistic, using a wide spectrum of source materials and methodological approaches. The concept of friends is considered broadly, not only as connections of mutual affection but also simply through business relationships. Families are considered in terms of how they helped or hindered local integration for foreigners and the matrimonial strategies they pursued. Networks were also deeply impacted by rivalry and hostility.

Author : Thomas Fudge
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781666926644

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The Kidnapped Bishop by Thomas Fudge Pdf

This book examines the abduction of a medieval Bohemian bishop by heretics and the forced consecration of over one hundred candidates to holy orders. The author clarifies the significance of the kidnapped bishop and his coerced acts of consecration.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004686373

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Religious Rites of War beyond the Medieval West by Anonim Pdf

This is Volume Two of a two-volume collection that brings together contributions from cultural and military history to offer an examination of religious rites employed in connection with warfare as well as their transformative and power- and identity-building potential across political communities of medieval Northern, Central, and Eastern Europe. Covering the period ca. 900 and 1500, the work takes theoretical, textual and practical approaches to the research on religious warfare, and investigates the connections between, and significance and function of crucial war rituals such as pre-, intra- and postbellum rites, as well as various activities surrounding the military life of individuals, polities, and corporates. Contributors are Robert Antonín, Robert Bubczyk, Dariusz Dąbrowski, Jesse Harrington, Carsten Selch Jensen, Sini Kangas, Radosław Kotecki, Gregory Leighton, Kyle C. Lincoln, Jacek Maciejewski, Yulia Mikhailova, Max Naderer, László Veszprémy, and Dušan Zupka.

Author : Peter R. Coss,Chris Dennis,Melissa Julian-Jones,Angelo Silvestri
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Bishops
ISBN : 2503573401

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Episcopal Power and Local Society in Medieval Europe, 900-1400 by Peter R. Coss,Chris Dennis,Melissa Julian-Jones,Angelo Silvestri Pdf

The medieval bishop occupied a position of central importance in European society between 1000 and 1400. Indeed, medieval bishops across Europe were involved in an assortment of ecclesiastical and secular affairs, a feature of the episcopal office in this period that ensured their place amongst the most influential figures in their respective milieux. Such prominence has inevitably piqued the interest of modern scholars and a number of important studies focusing on individual aspects of the medieval episcopal office have emerged, notably in recent years. Yet scholarly attention has often been drawn towards the careers of extraordinary bishops, men whose renown was often due to their involvement in both ecclesiastical and secular activities that took them beyond the borders of their dioceses. As a result, there has been a tendency to overlook the significance of the function of the episcopal office within local society, and, in particular, the way that this context shaped episcopal power. The purpose of this volume is to examine the foundations of episcopal power in medieval Europe by considering its functioning and development at the level of local society. This collection of essays derives from papers delivered at a conference at Cardiff University in May 2013, are divided into three sections focusing on the construction of episcopal power in local society, the ways in which it was augmented, and the different forms through which it was expressed. The essays have a broad geographical scope and include studies focused on English, French, Italian, and Icelandic dioceses.

Author : J. Thibodeaux
Publisher : Springer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230290464

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Negotiating Clerical Identities by J. Thibodeaux Pdf

Clerics in the Middle Ages were subjected to differing ideals of masculinity, both from within the Church and from lay society. The historians in this volume interrogate the meaning of masculine identity for the medieval clergy, by considering a wide range of sources, time periods and geographical contexts.

Author : Peter R. Coss,Chris Dennis,Thomas William Smith,Melissa Julian-Jones,Angelo Silvestri,Brepols
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Church
ISBN : 2503585019

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Episcopal Power and Personality in Medieval Europe, C. 900-c. 1480 by Peter R. Coss,Chris Dennis,Thomas William Smith,Melissa Julian-Jones,Angelo Silvestri,Brepols Pdf

Author : Carmen Angela Cvetković,Peter Gemeinhardt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110552515

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Episcopal Networks in Late Antiquity by Carmen Angela Cvetković,Peter Gemeinhardt Pdf

Recent studies on the development of early Christianity emphasize the fragmentation of the late ancient world while paying less attention to a distinctive feature of the Christianity of this time which is its inter-connectivity. Both local and trans-regional networks of interaction contributed to the expansion of Christianity in this age of fragmentation. This volume investigates a specific aspect of this inter-connectivity in the area of the Mediterranean by focusing on the formation and operation of episcopal networks. The rise of the bishop as a major figure of authority resulted in an increase in long-distance communication among church elites coming from different geographical areas and belonging to distinct ecclesiastical and theological traditions. Locally, the bishops in their roles as teachers, defenders of faith, patrons etc. were expected to interact with individuals of diverse social background who formed their congregations and with secular authorities. Consequently, this volume explores the nature and quality of various types of episcopal relationships in Late Antiquity attempting to understand how they were established, cultivated and put to use across cultural, linguistic, social and geographical boundaries.

Author : Emma O. Bérat,Rebecca Hardie,Irina Dumitrescu
Publisher : V&R Unipress
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9783847012429

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Relations of Power by Emma O. Bérat,Rebecca Hardie,Irina Dumitrescu Pdf

Women's networks – their relations with other women, men, objects and place – were a source of power in various European and neighbouring regions throughout the Middle Ages. This interdisciplinary volume considers how women's networks, and particularly women's direct and indirect relationships to other women, constituted and shaped power from roughly 300 to 1700 AD. The essays in this collection juxtapose scholarship from the fields of archaeology, art history, literature, history and religious studies, drawing on a wide variety of source types. Their aim is to highlight not only the importance of networks in understanding medieval women's power but also the different ways these networks are represented in medieval sources and can be approached today. This volume reveals how women's networks were widespread and instrumental in shaping political, familial and spiritual legacies.

Author : John S. Ott,Anna Trumbore Jones
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0754657655

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The Bishop Reformed by John S. Ott,Anna Trumbore Jones Pdf

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. How did the medieval bishop, unquestionably one of the most powerful figures of the Middle Ages, respond to these and other historical changes? In this volume of interdisciplinary studies drawn from literary scholarship, art history, and history, the editors and contributors propose less a conventional socio-political reading of the episcopate and more of a cultural reading of bishops that, especially, is concerned with issues such as episcopal (self-)representation, conceptualization of office and authority, cultural production (images, texts, material objects, space) and ecclesiology/ideology.

Author : David Warren Sabean,Simon Teuscher,Jon Mathieu
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Europe
ISBN : 1845452887

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Kinship in Europe by David Warren Sabean,Simon Teuscher,Jon Mathieu Pdf

Since the publication of Philippe Ariès' book, 'Centuries of Childhood', there has been great interest among historians in the history of the family and the household. The essays in this text explore two major transitions in kinship patterns - at the end of the Middle Ages and at the end of the 18th century.

Author : Rijcklof Hofman,Charles Caspers,Peter Nissen,Mathilde van Dijk,Johan Oosterman
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-30
Category : Benelux countries
ISBN : 2503585396

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Inwardness, Individualization, and Religious Agency in the Late Medieval Low Countries by Rijcklof Hofman,Charles Caspers,Peter Nissen,Mathilde van Dijk,Johan Oosterman Pdf

Recent scholarship on the Middle Ages has highlighted the importance of individualistic tendencies in devotion in both the lay world and religious communities. This interaction between individualization and religious agency has been scrutinized in numerous studies, focusing on the beginnings during the so-called 'Twelfth-Century Renaissance', and further development in the later medieval and early modern periods. However, there has hitherto been relatively little scholarship on the phenomenon in the Devotio Moderna: the flourishing of more personalized forms of devotion in north-western Europe during the later Middle Ages. The essays in this volume redress this gap by exploring the processes of inwardness and the emergent individualization of religious practices in the late medieval Low Countries. The essays explore issues including the early impact of the printing press on devotion; meditational aids such as identification with Christ, prayer cycles, practices of remembrance, and devout songs; and the tension between inner devotion and the ideal of communal piety in male and female religious communities. They also discuss some leading individuals of the Devotio movement. By addressing the Devotio Moderna and its contexts - the emergence of inwardness, individualization, and religious agency in the late medieval Low Countries and surrounding areas - the essays in this volume help to enhance and expand our knowledge of devotion in the late Middle Ages, both in lay circles and in religious communities, and they show the distinct contribution of the Low Countries to the European phenomenon of more personalized forms of devotion.

Author : Yaniv Fox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781107064591

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Power and Religion in Merovingian Gaul by Yaniv Fox Pdf

This book examines the political and social effects brought about by the establishment of Columbanian monasteries in seventh-century Gaul.

Author : Peter Linehan,Janet L. Nelson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136500053

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The Medieval World by Peter Linehan,Janet L. Nelson Pdf

This groundbreaking collection brings the Middle Ages to life and conveys the distinctiveness of this diverse, constantly changing period. Thirty-eight scholars bring together one medieval world from many disparate worlds, from Connacht to Constantinople and from Tynemouth to Timbuktu. This extraordinary set of reconstructions presents the reader with a vivid re-drawing of the medieval past, offering fresh appraisals of the evidence and modern historical writing. Chapters are thematically linked in four sections: identities beliefs, social values and symbolic order power and power-structures elites, organizations and groups. Packed full of original scholarship, The Medieval World is essential reading for anyone studying medieval history.

Author : Jane McLeod
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780271037684

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Licensing Loyalty by Jane McLeod Pdf

"Explores the evolution of the idea that the rise of print culture was a threat to the royal government of eighteenth-century France. Argues that French printers did much to foster this view as they negotiated a place in the expanding bureaucratic apparatus of the state"--Provided by publisher.