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Power of the Bishop in Western Europe
1000-1300: Episcopal Personalities
Cardiff University, UK – 10-12 June, 2015
Cardiff University is pleased to announce the up-coming symposium on the episcopal office
in the Middle Ages, to be held 10-12 June 2015. There is tendency in modern
historiography to approach the episcopal office, its associated duties, and episcopal power
and authority abstractedly, detaching the office from the personalities which brought it to
life. The conference aims to cast light on the extent to which the personalities of the men
appointed to bishoprics shaped the episcopal office as it developed in Europe between
c.1000 and c.1300. How was personality expressed through the episcopal office and its
associated duties? Bishops were not divorced from the social context and political milieu in
which they lived and operated. How did the personal relationships of an individual bishop
with kings, princes, archbishops or popes, or the position of a bishop in an extended kin
network, affect not only the development of the office, its functions and its societal status,
but also the practice of episcopal duties? Can a personality be reconstructed in the first
place - if so, then how accurately, and where might we begin? To answer such questions, we
must draw on expertise from across the disciplines, and we are confident that many more
issues will be raised as the conference progresses.
Potential topics include (but are not limited to): episcopal personalities and the restoration
of the secular church; the impact of monastic personalities on the episcopal office; episcopal
personalities and the development of monasticism or communities of secular
canons; the relationship between the topography of a city and an episcopal
personality; ecclesiastical architecture as reflections of episcopal personalities; episcopal
personalities and friendship networks; the influence of episcopal personalities over secular
rulers; and episcopal personalities as causes of conflict or tools of peace-making.
Papers set in the context of the Eastern Church are particularly welcome for comparative
purposes.
Contact: [email protected]