Episcopal Power and Personality in Medieval Europe, 900-1480
Edited by Angelo Silvestri Edited by Peter Coss Edited by Chris Dennis Edited by Melissa Julian-Jones
The essays collected in this volume explore the power of the medieval bishop through the neglected and problematic lens of personality, tackling the construction and presentation of medieval personalities by historians and medieval writers in an interdisciplinary manner.
The question of personality is a problematic one, beset by complications of cultural distance, the layers of the past, and the limitations of the source material. Recognising these difficulties, this volume draws together character sketches based upon historical narratives and a range of sources, including architecture, liturgical manuscripts, chronicles, and hagiographical material, to show a multifaceted range of means by which historians can construct, reconstruct, and deconstruct episcopal power through the person of the bishop. Building on a previous volume of essays, Episcopal Power and Local Society in Medieval Europe, 900-1400, which examined the construction, augmentation, and expression of episcopal power in local society, this second volume seeks to uncover the impact of the personalities behind that power. Through essays dealing with the construction of cultural and political personalities, the shadows they cast, and the contexts that forged them, this volume brings to life the careers of bishops across medieval Europe from c. 900 to c. 1480. This geographical range and broad time span throws up the similarity in applications and benefits of interdisciplinarity which can be applied to ecclesiastical history, and presents a fascinating range of case studies for consideration.
- Edited by Angelo Silvestri
- Edited by Peter Coss
- Edited by Chris Dennis
- Edited by Melissa Julian-Jones
Other Titles in this Series
Inwardness, Individualization, and Religious Agency in the Late Medieval Low Countries
Studies in The 'Devotio Moderna' and its Contexts
Volume 43
Religious Controversy in Europe, 1378-1536
Textual Transmission and Networks of Readership
Volume 27
The Library of the Abbey of La Trappe
A Study of its History from the Twelfth Century to the French Revolution, with an Annotated Edition of the 1752 Catalogue
Volume 32
Patronage, Production, and Transmission of Texts in Medieval and Early Modern Jewish Cultures
Volume 34
Devotional Culture in Late Medieval England and Europe
Diverse Imaginations of Christ's Life
Volume 31
Perspectives for an Architecture of Solitude
Essays on Cistercians, Art and Architecture in Honour of Peter Fergusson
Volume 11
The Power of Words in Late Medieval Devotional and Mystical Writing
Essays in Honour of Denis Renevey
Volume 46
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