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IMC 2010: Sessions

Session 625: Bishop and Laity in the 13th Century, II: 'Bishopship' and the Culture of Episcopacy

Tuesday 13 July 2010, 11.15-12.45

Organisers:Ian Forrest, Oriel College, University of Oxford
Sethina Watson, Department of History, University of York
Moderator/Chair:Nicholas Karn, Department of History, University of Southampton
Paper 625-a'A Mark for the Arrow': Episcopal Office, Canonical Inquisitions, and Infamous Bishops in the 13th Century
(Language: English)
John Sabapathy, St John's College, University of Oxford
Index terms: Administration, Ecclesiastical History
Paper 625-bWas There a Lincoln Perception of 'Bishopship'?
(Language: English)
Nicholas Hamilton Bennett, Lincoln Cathedral Library
Index terms: Administration, Ecclesiastical History
Paper 625-cSt Thomas Cantilupe, Richard Swinfield, and the Culture of Episcopacy in Late 13th-Century Hereford
(Language: English)
Andrew Fleming, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford
Index terms: Administration, Ecclesiastical History
Abstract

Episcopacy was a complex office in the Middle Ages, but it has not received the same focused historiographical attention as kingship or lordship. This session explores the expectations and assumptions of 'bishopship', relating to the bishop in his diocese.