IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 645: Facets of Clerical Power in the Long Middle Ages
Tuesday 4 July 2023, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Episcopus: Society for the Study of Bishops & Secular Clergy in the Middle Ages |
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| Organiser: | William Campbell, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews |
| Moderator/Chair: | Benjamin Wand, Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, St Louis University |
| Paper 645-a | Caesarius of Arles: The Bishop as a Watchman (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Religious Life, Sermons and Preaching, Theology |
| Paper 645-b | Mapping the Changing Relationship between Bishops and Monastic in 11th-Century France: A Comparative Study of a New Ordination Ritual for Abbots (Language: English) Index terms: Liturgy, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Abstract | Bishops were entangled in networks of both secular and clerical power. They often found themselves not just 'under two rules of law', as Powicke described the clergy in general, but because of their high status in church and (often) state, administering both kinds of law. The papers in this session interrogate the particular complexities of bishops exercising power across the long Middle Ages. |