Secular Clergy and the Laity II: Becoming a Bishop
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Episcopus: Society for the Study of Bishops and Secular Clergy in the Middle Ages
Organizer Name
Michael Burger
Organizer Affiliation
Auburn Univ.-Montgomery
Presider Name
Evan A. Gatti
Presider Affiliation
Elon Univ.
Paper Title 1
The Making of Saintly Bishops in Iceland: A Family Business
Presenter 1 Name
Tiffany White
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Univ. of California-Berkeley
Paper Title 2
Exploiting Early Academic and Pastoral Networks: Richard Gravesend's Journey to the Bishopric of Lincoln
Presenter 2 Name
Sam Howden
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Univ. of Lincoln
Paper Title 3
Career Paths to the Episcopacy? The Pre-episcopal Careers of Late Medieval Scottish and Norwegian Bishops
Presenter 3 Name
Sarah Thomas
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Univ. of Hull
Paper Title 4
The Path to the Episcopate in the Norwegian "Skattland" Dioceses, ca. 1250-ca. 1450
Presenter 4 Name
Michael Frost
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Univ. of Aberdeen
Start Date
12-5-2017 1:30 PM
Session Location
Schneider 1275
Description
This session will narrow the focus of the first two sessions in this thread. The importance of bishoprics to lay power meant that lay authority often, perhaps usually, had a role in making a bishop a bishop. But there were other factors, including family connections and ecclesiastical institutions. How these forces played out may be an index of larger medieval developments.
Michael Burger
Secular Clergy and the Laity II: Becoming a Bishop
Schneider 1275
This session will narrow the focus of the first two sessions in this thread. The importance of bishoprics to lay power meant that lay authority often, perhaps usually, had a role in making a bishop a bishop. But there were other factors, including family connections and ecclesiastical institutions. How these forces played out may be an index of larger medieval developments.
Michael Burger