IMC 2003: Sessions
Session 120: Bishops and/as Counts in 11th- and 12th-Century Lotharingia and Germany: Session in Memory of Timothy Reuter
Monday 14 July 2003, 11.15-12.45
| Organisers: | Arnoud-Jan A. Bijsterveld, Faculteit Sociale Wetenschappen, Universiteit van Tilburg Brigitte Meijns, Department of History, KU Leuven |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Brigitte Meijns, Department of History, KU Leuven |
| Paper 120-a | Bishops as Counts and Counts as Bishops: Liège and Utrecht, 11th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 120-c | German Bishops at War, 1152-1190 (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Military History, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | The Central Middle Ages (10th-12th centuries) constitute the age of both close cooperation and fierce struggle between Church and State. Especially in Germany and Lotharinga bishops held pivotal positions in both. They received comital power and became counts in their own right. They led armies and in the artistic representation of their function they had themselves depicted as secular rulers. Their close ties with kings, dukes, counts and regional aristocracy made them privileged intermediaries between ecclesiastical and secular power. In this session, we highlight several examples of the exercise of 'secular' power by bishops, as well as the ways they and their fellow aristocrats had themselves depicted in funerary monuments after their deaths. |