John S. Ott and Anna Trumbore Jones
Ashgate
Hardback
296
2007
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.
Ashgate
Hardback
296
2007
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.