Patterns of Episcopal power : bishops in tenth and eleventh century western Europe = Strukturen bischöflicher Herrschaftsgewalt im westlichen Europa des 10. und 11. Jahrhunderts / herausgegeben von = edited by Ludger Körntgen und Dominik Wassenhoven.

In medieval Europe, the death of a king could not only cause a dispute about the succession, but also a severe crisis. In times of a vacant throne particular responsibility fell to the bishops - whose general importance for the time around the first milennium has been revealed by recent scholarship...

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