The bishop reformed
Subtitle: studies of episcopal power and culture in the central Middle Ages
By: edited by John S. Ott and Anna Trumbore Jones.
Contributors: Ott, John S.; Jones, Anna Trumbore.
Series: Church, faith, and culture in the Medieval West
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780754657651
Subjects: Episcopacy -- History.; Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.; Christianity and culture.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction : the bishop reformed / John S. Ott and Anna Trumbore Jones; value: Lay magnates, religious houses, and the role of the bishop in Aquitaine (877-1050) / Anna Trumbore Jones; value: Bishops and religious law, 900-1050 / Greta Austin; value: Sovereignty and social order : Archbishop Wulfstan and the Institutes of polity / Renée R. Trilling; value: The image of the bishop in the Middle Ages / Eric Palazzo; value: Building the body of the church : a bishop's blessing in the benedictional of Engilmar of Parenzo / Evan A. Gatti; value: Bishop Gerard I of Cambrai-Arras, the three orders, and the problem of human weakness / T.M. Riches; value: 'Both Mary and Martha' : Bishop Lietbert of Cambrai and the construction of Episcopal sanctity in a border diocese around 1100 / John S. Ott; value: Driving the chariot of the Lord : Siegfried I of Mainz (1060-1084) and Episcopal identity in an age of transition / John Eldevik; value: Pastoral care as military action : the ecclesiology of Archbishop Alfanus I of Salerno (1058-1085) / Valerie Ramseyer; value: What made Ivo mad? : reflections on a medieval bishop's anger / Bruce C. Brasington; value: The Bishops of Piacenza, their cathedral, and the reform of the church / Dorothy F. Glass; value: Urban space, sacred topography, and ritual meanings in Florence : the route of the bishops entry, c. 1200-1600 / Maureen C. Miller; value: Postscript : the ambiguous bishop / Thomas Head.