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Bishops and the Politics of Patronage in Merovingian Gaul - Gregory I. Halfond

Bishops and the Politics of Patronage in Merovingian Gaul

Buch | Hardcover
220 Seiten
2019
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-3931-6 (ISBN)
CHF 81,95 inkl. MwSt
Following the dissolution of the Western Roman Empire, local Christian leaders were confronted with the problem of how to conceptualize and administer their regional churches. As Gregory Halfond shows, the bishops of post-Roman Gaul oversaw a transformation in the relationship between church and state. He shows that by constituting themselves...
Following the dissolution of the Western Roman Empire, local Christian leaders were confronted with the problem of how to conceptualize and administer their regional churches. As Gregory Halfond shows, the bishops of post-Roman Gaul oversaw a transformation in the relationship between church and state. He shows that by constituting themselves as a corporate body, the Gallic episcopate was able to wield significant political influence on local, regional, and kingdom-wide scales.


Gallo-Frankish bishops were conscious of their corporate membership in an exclusive order, the rights and responsibilities of which were consistently being redefined and subsequently expressed through liturgy, dress, physical space, preaching, and association with cults of sanctity. But as Halfond demonstrates, individual bishops, motivated by the promise of royal patronage to provide various forms of service to the court, often struggled, sometimes unsuccessfully, to balance their competing loyalties. However, even the resulting conflicts between individual bishops did not, he shows, fundamentally undermine the Gallo-Frankish episcopate's corporate identity or integrity. Ultimately, Halfond provides a far more subtle and sophisticated understanding of church-state relations across the early medieval period.

Gregory I. Halfond is Associate Professor of History at Framingham State University. His prior publications include The Archaeology of Frankish Church Councils, AD 511–768 and The Medieval Way of War.

Introduction

1. Episcopal Service to the Court

2. Royal Patronage and Its Benefits

3. Unity in Disunity: The Limits of Corporate Solidarity

4. Disunity in Unity: Territorial Integration and Its Effects

Conclusion

Bibliography

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Zusatzinfo 1 Maps
Verlagsort Ithaca
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 907 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Mittelalter
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Religionsgeschichte
Religion / Theologie Christentum Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10 1-5017-3931-X / 150173931X
ISBN-13 978-1-5017-3931-6 / 9781501739316
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