Title
The Bishop and the Law of the Church, 900-1050
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2007
Publication Title
The Bishop Reformed: Studies in Episcopal Culture and Power in the Central Middle Ages (900-1215)
Department
Religion
Abstract
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, brought about by a variety of factors: the pressures of ecclesiastical reform; the devolution and recovery of royal authority; the growth of papal involvement in regional matters and in diocesan administration; the emergence of the...
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Citation
“The Bishop and the Law of the Church, 900-1050,” in The Bishop Reformed: Studies in Episcopal Culture and Power in the Central Middle Ages (900-1215), ed. John Ott and Anna Trumbore (Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West; Aldershot, 2007), 39-56.