‎Peter Coss, Chris Dennis, Melissa Julian-Jones, Angelo Silvestri (eds)‎
‎Episcopal Power and Personality in Medieval Europe, 900-1480‎

‎, Brepols, 2020 Hardback, vii + 303 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:1 b/w, 5 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503585000.‎

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‎Summary The question of personality is a problematic one, beset by complications of cultural distance, the layers of the past, and the limitations of the source material. Recognising these difficulties, this volume draws together character sketches based upon historical narratives and a range of sources, including architecture, liturgical manuscripts, chronicles, and hagiographical material, to show a multifaceted range of means by which historians can construct, reconstruct, and deconstruct episcopal power through the person of the bishop. Building on a previous volume of essays, Episcopal Power and Local Society in Medieval Europe, 900-1400, which examined the construction, augmentation, and expression of episcopal power in local society, this second volume seeks to uncover the impact of the personalities behind that power. Through essays dealing with the construction of cultural and political personalities, the shadows they cast, and the contexts that forged them, this volume brings to life the careers of bishops across medieval Europe from c. 900 to c. 1480. This geographical range and broad time span throws up the similarity in applications and benefits of interdisciplinarity which can be applied to ecclesiastical history, and presents a fascinating range of case studies for consideration. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations Introduction - MELISSA JULIAN -JONES, CHRIS DENNIS, and ANGELO SILVESTRI Part I. Constructing Episcopal Personalities The Destruction of the Church: On Bishops, Emperors, Slavs, and Ambitions in Thietmar of Merseburg's Chronicle, 975-1018 - ANDREA VANINA NEYRA Writing Episcopal Courage in Twelfth-Century Poland: Gallus Anonymous and Master Vincentius - RADOS?AW KOTECKI and JACEK MACIEJEWSKI The Personalization of the Pastoral Office: The Example of William II of Troia - ANTONIO ANTONETTI Life of the Mind: The Education, Intellectual Legacy, and Personality of Bishop Zoen Tencarari of Avignon (r. 1241-1261) - CHRISTINE AXEN Alfonso Carrillo de Acuna, Archbishop of Toledo (1446-1482), and the Construction of his Cultural Personality: An Approach from his Liturgical Manuscripts - MERCEDES LOPEZ -MAYAN Part II. Consecrating Episcopal Personalities Composing a Saint: The Importance of Gerard of Csanad (977-1046) - MONIKA BELUCZ 'That we might be made God': Pseudo-Dionysius and Robert Grosseteste's Episcopal Career - JACK P. CUNNINGHAM England's Two Thomases: Episcopal Models of Sanctity Embodied in Thomas Becket and Thomas de Cantilupe - IAN L. BASS Promoting or Rejecting the Saints: The Representation of Non-Saintly Bishops in Medieval Scandinavian Hagiography - SARA ELLIS NILSSON Part III. Politics and Episcopal Personalities A Pattern of Alternating Interests: The Peace of God in the Archdiocese of Reims in the First Half of the Eleventh Century - SAM JANSSENS Personality of Prelates between Church and Empire: The Example of Albero of Trier (1131-1152) - BRIAN A. PAVLAC A True History of Deeds Done beyond the Sea? William of Tyre and the Principality of Antioch - ANDREW D. BUCK 'It pleased the Lord Bishop': Episcopal Agency and Cathedral Chapter Reform in the Kingdom of Castile at the End of the Long Twelfth Century (c. 1195-1205) - KYLE C. LINCOLN A Poisoned Chalice? Crown, Church, and Reputation in the Careers of King John's Bishops - PAUL WEBSTER‎