TY - BOOK ID - 12014481 TI - Patterns of Episcopal power : bishops in tenth and eleventh century western Europe = Strukturen bischoĢflicher Herrschaftsgewalt im westlichen Europa des 10. und 11. Jahrhunderts AU - KoĢrntgen, Ludger. AU - Wassenhoven, Dominik. PY - 2011 SN - 1283402688 9786613402684 3110262037 3110262029 PB - Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, DB - UniCat KW - Church and state - Europe - History. KW - Church and state -- Europe -- History -- Congresses. KW - Church history - Middle Ages, 600-1500. KW - Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 -- Congresses. KW - Episcopacy - History. KW - Episcopacy -- History -- Congresses. KW - Episcopacy KW - Church and state KW - Church history KW - Religion KW - Philosophy & Religion KW - Christianity KW - History KW - Christianity and state KW - Separation of church and state KW - State and church KW - Bishops KW - Collegiality of bishops KW - Collegiality KW - State, The KW - Church polity KW - Apostolic succession KW - Bishops. KW - East Franconia. KW - England. KW - Power. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:12014481 AB - 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 ER -