IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 1525: Construction and Continuity of Episcopal Identities in the Alpine and Rhineland Regions, c. 400-800
Thursday 12 July 2012, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Department of History, University of Sheffield |
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| Organiser: | Helena F. Carr, Department of History, University of Sheffield |
| Moderator/Chair: | Ian N. Wood, School of History, University of Leeds |
| Paper 1525-a | The Authority of Bishops and the Cults of the Saints in Late Antique Trier and Cologne (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1525-b | Bishops and the Cult of Saints in Alpine Switzerland: The Cases of St Peter (Geneva) and St Lucius (Chur), c. 300-800 (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - Religious, Historiography - Medieval, Religious Life |
| Paper 1525-c | A Briton Abroad?: St Lucius of Chur and the Moulding of a Diocesan Patron (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | This session discusses the development of episcopal identity and authority in the Alpine and Rhineland regions from Late Antiquity into the Early Middle Ages, focusing particularly upon the creation and promotion of regional saints' cults. Many bishoprics in the central European regions of the Roman Empire disappeared, only to be revived in the Carolingian period. It is therefore especially interesting to look at those which apparently survived the upheavals of fifth to seventh centuries with some level of continuity. How did these bishops establish and maintain their diocese's legitimacy? What challenges did they face and how were these confronted? |