Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction: the bishop reformed, John S. Ott and Anna Trumbore Jones; Lay magnates, religious houses, and the role of the bishop in Aquitaine (877-1050), Anna Trumbore Jones; Bishops and religious law, 900-1050, Greta Austin; Sovereignty and social order: Archbishop Wulfstan and the Institutes of Polity, Renée R. Trilling; The image of the bishop in the Middle Ages, Eric Palazzo; Building the body of the Church; a bishop's blessing in the Benedictional of Engilmar of Parenzo, Evan A. Gatti; Bishop Gerard I of Cambrai-Arras, the 3 orders, and the problem of human weakness, T.M. Riches; 'Both Mary and Martha': Bishop Lietbert of Cambrai and the construction of episcopal sanctity in a border diocese around 1100, John S. Ott; Driving the chariot of the Lord: Siegfried I of Mainz (1060-1084) and episcopal identity in an age of transition, John Eldevik; Pastoral care as military action: the ecclesiology of Archbishop Alfanus I of Salerno (1058-1085), Valerie Ramseyer; What made Ivo mad? Reflections on a medieval bishop's anger, Bruce C. Brasington; The bishops of Piacenza, their cathedral, and the reform of the Church, Dorothy F. Glass; Urban space, sacred topography, and ritual meanings in Florence: the route of the bishop's entry, c1200-1600, Maureen C. Miller; Postscript: the ambiguous bishop, Thomas Head; Index.

About the Author

John S. Ott is Associate Professor of History at Portland State University, USA. Anna Trumbore Jones is Assistant Professor of History at Lake Forest College, USA. John S. Ott, Anna Trumbore Jones, Greta Austin, Renee R. Trilling, Eric Palazzo, Evan A. Gatti, T.M. Riches, John Eldevik, Valerie Ramseyer, Bruce C. Brasington, Dorothy F. Glass, Maureen C. Miller, Thomas Head.

Reviews

’It is rare that a volume of essays by numerous contributors....is as successful as this book in fulfilling its aim.’ Journal of Ecclesiastical History ’This is a wide-ranging and eye-opening collection of case studies that examines the multifaceted role of bishops in post-Carolingian Europe. ... Historians of medieval religion will find much food for thought in this volume, which at its best invites us to reconsider our presumptions about the role of the bishop in medieval society by taking into account all of the richness and complexity of his local milieu.’ Early Medieval Europe