IMC 2011: Sessions

Session 527: How to Get Rid of Unwanted Bishops, I: Canonical and Non-Canonical Approaches in the Early and Central Middle Ages

Sponsor:	Episcopus - Society for the Study of Episcopal Power & Culture in the Middle Ages
Organiser:	Jan K. Bulman, Department of History, Auburn University Montgomery, Alabama
Moderator/Chair:	Jan K. Bulman, Department of History, Auburn University Montgomery, Alabama
Paper 527-a	Excommunicating the Pope: Maurus of Ravenna and Episcopal Conflict in 7th-Century Italy (Language: English) Edward Schoolman, Department of History, University of Nevada, Reno Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 527-b	The Bishop's Deposition and the Search of Rituals: Confessions, Acclamations, and Oaths (Language: English) Christine Kleinjung, Historisches Seminar, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz Index terms: Canon Law, Ecclesiastical History
Paper 527-c	Deposed for a Day: The Uprising against Bishop Bernard of Parma, Its Causes and Consequences (Language: English) Robert Houghton, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Ecclesiastical History, Rhetoric, Sermons and Preaching
Abstract	This panel examines canonical and non-canonical ways in which bishops were removed from their offices in the early and central Middle Ages.