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Der Band nimmt erstmals den spätantiken Klerus der italischen Halbinsel in seiner Gesamtheit in den Blick. In den systematisch zusammengestellten Inschriften geben die Kleriker, vom Ostiarier bis zum Bischof, in einzigartiger Weise Auskunft über ihr Selbstverständnis und ihre gesellschaftliche Stellung. Die Auswertung dieser heterogenen epigraphischen Texte trägt so maßgeblich zur Erforschung der spätantiken Gesellschaft und Kirche bei. This volume is the first to examine the clergy of late antiquity on the Italian peninsula in their entirety. In systematically compiled inscriptions, clergymen, from ostiarii to bishops, uniquely provided information about the way that they viewed themselves and their position in society. By analyzing these heterogenous epigraphic texts, this volume thus makes a substantial contribution to research on society and the church in late antiquity.

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"The late antique and the early medieval periods witnessed the flourishing of bishops in the West as the main articulators of social life. This influential position exposed them to several threats, both political and religious. Researchers have generally addressed violence, rebellions or conflicts to study the dynamics related to secular powers during these periods. They haven't paid similar attention, however, to those analogous contexts that had bishops as protagonists. This book proposes an approach to bishops as threatened subjects in the late antique and early medieval West. In particular, the volume pursues three main goals. Firstly, it aims to identify the different types of threats that bishops had to deal with. Then it sets out to frame these situations of adversity in their own contexts. Finally, it will address the episcopal strategies deployed to deal with such contexts of adversity. In sum, we aim to underline the impact that these contexts had as a dynamiting factor of episcopal action. Thus the episcopal threats may become a useful approach to study the bishops' relationships with other agents of power, the motivations behind their actions and - last but not least - for understanding the episcopal rising power."

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