Andrew Fear, José Fernández Urbiña, Mar Marcos Sanchez

The Role of the Bishop in Late Antiquity (eBook, ePUB)

Conflict and Compromise

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Late Antiquity witnessed a major transformation in the authority and power of the Episcopate within the Church, with the result that bishops came to embody the essence of Christianity and increasingly overshadow the leading Christian laity. The rise of Episcopal power came in a period in which drastic political changes produced long and significant conflicts both within and outside the Church. This book examines these problems in depth, looking at bishops' varied roles in both causing and resolving these disputes, including those internal to the church, those which began within the church but had major effects on wider society, and those of a secular nature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472504173
• Artikelnr.: 38322753

Autorenporträt

Andrew Fear is the author of Orosius: Seven Books Against the Pagans (annotated translation) (2010), Lives of the Visigothic Fathers (1997). He is the co-editor of Historiae Mundi: Studies in Universal Historiography (2010)