Der heilige Bischof - Zur politischen Dimension von Heiligkeit im Mittelalter und ihrem Wandel

Wünsch, Thomas

doi:10.7788/akg.2000.82.2.261

Archiv für Kulturgeschichte

2000

DOI: 10.7788/akg.2000.82.2.261

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Der heilige Bischof - Zur politischen Dimension von Heiligkeit im Mittelalter und ihrem Wandel

Thomas Wünsch¹

Abstract: Die bisherige Forschung zum heiligen Bischof im Mittelalter hat sich überwiegend auf Einzelpersonen oder kürzere Zeitspannen konzentriert. 2

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Ideals of Episcopal Power, Legal Norms and Military Activity of the Polish Episcopate between the Twelfth- and Fourteenth Centuries

Kotecki

Maciejewski

2020

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A b s t r a c t: This article is an attempt to illustrate relations between the theory and practice of the military activity of Polish bishops under the rule of the Piast dynasty. The problem is discussed based on an analysis of the locally formulated ideal of episcopal power and the ideological and legal patterns reaching Poland that regulated the possibilities of using weapons by clergymen, and, in particular, defined the ways in which churchmen participated in wars and in declaring and conducting them. K e y w o r d s: bishops and war; warrior-bishop, ideals of episcopal power; canon law; clerical arms-bearing; episcopal warfare; Piast Poland.

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Ideals of Episcopal Power, Legal Norms and Military Activity of the Polish Episcopate between the Twelfth- and Fourteenth Centuries

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Maciejewski

2020

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Confessor, Traitor or Prosecutor: On the Ritualized Relationships between Kings and Bishops through the Prism of Ottonian Historiography

Kandzha¹

2020

Auc Philosophica Et Historica

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This paper is devoted to the analysis of the episcopal behavior and the interpretive frameworks that writers of the Ottonian age used to describe their actions. The focus of the research are various narrative representations, which were attached to the relationships between bishops and kings in the medieval historiography. The saintly bishop, the spiritual instructor of a king, the prosecutor of a ruler, and the bishop-traitor were the most prominent literary models, or modes of description, used in texts from the tenth and eleventh centuries. These modes of episcopal representations, in their relation to royal power, are perceived as parts of the coherent narrative strategies utilized by the medieval historiographers to meet their own aims. These aims included increasing the prestige of a community represented by a bishop, criticizing royal policies, condemning political rivals or justifying their own position. It is argued that all these various literary roles, thrusted upon bishops by chroniclers, hagiographers or polemicists, were realizations of the milestone concepts of episcopal power and medieval political theology: admonition and familiarity. These literary roles thus allowed Ottonian writers to imagine a bishop as being an intimate friend, a loyal lord, a prophet and a pastor to the ruling king and his realm.

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Der heilige Bischof - Zur politischen Dimension von Heiligkeit im Mittelalter und ihrem Wandel

Abstract: Die bisherige Forschung zum heiligen Bischof im Mittelalter hat sich überwiegend auf Einzelpersonen oder kürzere Zeitspannen konzentriert. 2

Cited by 2 publications

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Ideals of Episcopal Power, Legal Norms and Military Activity of the Polish Episcopate between the Twelfth- and Fourteenth Centuries

Ideals of Episcopal Power, Legal Norms and Military Activity of the Polish Episcopate between the Twelfth- and Fourteenth Centuries

Confessor, Traitor or Prosecutor: On the Ritualized Relationships between Kings and Bishops through the Prism of Ottonian Historiography

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