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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
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- Author
- Burger, Michael (author)
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781139526180
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Religion, Memoir, Religious
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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