IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 229: Bishops and Lords in Pursuit of Social Order: Loyalties in Peace and Reform
Monday 7 July 2014, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Episcopus: Society for the Study of Bishops and Secular Clergy in the Middle Ages / Conventus: Problems of Religious Communal Life in the High Middle Ages |
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| Organiser: | Brigitte Meijns, Department of History, KU Leuven |
| Moderator/Chair: | Steven Vanderputten, Vakgroep Geschiedenis, Universiteit Gent |
| Paper 229-a | My Uncle, the (Arch)Bishop: Nepotism, Expediency, and the English Benedictine Reform (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Paper 229-b | Friends are Silver, Family is Gold: Episcopal Sees and Aristocratic Clans in the Church Province of Rheims, 10th-11th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Genealogy and Prosopography, Religious Life |
| Paper 229-c | The Pax Dei in Modern Historiography: Concepts, Methods, Debates (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Religious Life, Social History |
| Abstract | This session explores the various ways in which central medieval bishops tried to impose and maintain social order. Bishops often vacillated between loyalty towards their family and the defense of the interests of their church. Especially in times of religious reform or during periods of social turmoil the actions of the bishops could be heavily influenced by the destinies of the aristocratic clans to which they belonged. These three papers deal with the intricacies of the episcopal office against the background of the transformation of 10th- and early 11th-century West European society. |