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In medieval Europe, the death of a king could not only cause a dispute about the succession, but also a severe crisis. In times of a vacant throne particular responsibility fell to the bishops - whose general importance for the time around the first millennium has been revealed by recent scholarship - as royal counsellors and policy makers. This volume therefore concentrates on the bishops' room for manoeuvre and the patterns of episcopal power, focusing on the Eastern Frankish Reich and Anglo-Saxon England in a comparative approach which is not least based upon the research of a renowned medie

Church and state - Europe - History. --- Church and state -- Europe -- History -- Congresses. --- Church history - Middle Ages, 600-1500. --- Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 -- Congresses. --- Episcopacy - History. --- Episcopacy -- History -- Congresses. --- Episcopacy --- Church and state --- Church history --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Christianity --- History --- Christianity and state --- Separation of church and state --- State and church --- Bishops --- Collegiality of bishops --- Collegiality --- State, The --- Church polity --- Apostolic succession --- Bishops. --- East Franconia. --- England. --- Power.