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Episcopal power and personality in medieval Europe, 900-1480, -- Promoting or rejecting the saints : the representation of non-saintly bishops in medieval Scandinavian hagiography by Peter Coss (editor), Chris Dennis (editor), Melissa Julian-Jones (editor), Angelo Silvestri (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Pág. del ed.: "The essays collected in this volume explore the power of the medieval bishop through the neglected and problematic lens of personality, tackling the construction and presentation of medieval personalities by historians and medieval writers in an interdisciplinary manner. 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 personalit
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- Author
- Peter Coss (editor), Chris Dennis (editor), Melissa Julian-Jones (editor), Angelo Silvestri (editor)
- Publisher
- Brepols N.V.
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9782503585000
- Category
- nonfiction
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