Noble lord, good shepherd
Subtitle: Episcopal power and piety in Aquitaine, 877-1050
By: by Anna Trumbore Jones.
Series: Brill's series on the early Middle Ages -- v. 17; Brill's series on the early Middle Ages -- v. 17.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9789004177864
Subjects: Bishops -- France -- Aquitaine -- History -- To 1500; Aquitaine (France) -- Church history -- To 1500
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-252) and index.
Table of contents: title: In bishops we honor or deny the Lord; title: Ad locum sanctum, ad stipendia fratrum : the bishop and his cathedral; title: If the count should send a bishop : lay authority and the bishops of Aquitaine; title: Episcopal authority at religious communities; title: Episcopal foundation, restoration, and reform of religious houses; title: Aiding the servants of faith : bishops and donations to religious houses; title: Ideals of episcopal power in tenth-century Aquitaine.