TY - BOOK ID - 5534872 TI - Bishops, clerks, and diocesan governance in thirteenth-century England PY - 2012 SN - 9781107022140 9781139135436 9781107417427 9781139526180 1139526189 1139135430 1107022142 1139540173 1139888927 1139532049 1139530852 1139528572 1283638231 113952738X 1107417422 PB - New York Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Benefices, Ecclesiastical KW - Church polity. KW - Church discipline. KW - Bénéfices ecclésiastiques KW - Eglise KW - History KW - Histoire KW - Gouvernement KW - Discipline KW - England KW - Angleterre KW - Church history KW - Histoire religieuse KW - -Church polity. KW - 27 <420> "10/14" KW - Discipline, Church KW - Discipline, Ecclesiastical KW - Ecclesiastical discipline KW - Church polity KW - Church benefices KW - Ecclesiastical benefices KW - Expectative graces KW - Graces, Expectative KW - Pluralism (Benefices) KW - Church property KW - Clergy KW - Christian sects KW - Christianity KW - Church government KW - Ecclesiastical polity KW - Polity, Ecclesiastical KW - Church KW - Polity (Religion) KW - History. KW - Kerkgeschiedenis--Engeland--?"10/14" KW - Salaries, etc. KW - Government KW - Polity KW - -Benefices, Ecclesiastical KW - Bénéfices ecclésiastiques KW - Anglii︠a︡ KW - Inghilterra KW - Engeland KW - Inglaterra KW - Anglija KW - England and Wales KW - -Church polity KW - Church discipline KW - Arts and Humanities UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5534872 AB - This book investigates how bishops deployed reward and punishment to control their administrative subordinates in thirteenth-century England. Bishops had few effective avenues available to them for disciplining their clerks and rarely pursued them, preferring to secure their service and loyalty through rewards. The chief reward was the benefice, often granted for life. Episcopal administrators' security of tenure in these benefices, however, made them free agents, allowing them to transfer from diocese to diocese or even leave administration altogether; they did not constitute a standing episcopal civil service. This tenuous bureaucratic relationship made the personal relationship between bishop and clerk more important. Ultimately, many bishops communicated in terms of friendship with their administrators, who responded with expressions of devotion. Michael Burger's study brings together ecclesiastical, social, legal and cultural history, producing the first synoptic study of thirteenth-century English diocesan administration in decades. His research provides an ecclesiastical counterpoint to numerous studies of bastard feudalism in secular contexts. ER -