Lord of the Sacred City: The Episcopus Exclusus in Late Medieval and Early Modern Germany

Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-90-04-11120-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 72, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Reihe: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions

Urban histories have emphasized the rise of civic autonomy and proto-democracy. Based on chronicle and archival sources, this volume focuses on German bishops, former lords of the city and fierce opponents of civic freedom. The author investigates how bishops contested exclusion from political, economic, and religious dimensions of civic life (Episcopus exclusus), which culminated in the Protestant Reformation.

Four chapters are devoted to episcopal expulsion throughout Germany and the cities of Constance and Augsburg in particular. A remarkable section explores the puzzle of the bishop's civic survival in the later Middle Ages, made possible through episcopal ritual.

The emphasis on city, bishop, and ritual will be of special interest to urban historians as well as to scholars of medieval religion, the reformation, church history, church/state relations, and social history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tyler, Jeff J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholizismus, Römisch-Katholische Kirche
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Über Autor(innen)

J. Jeffery Tyler, Ph.D. (1995) in Medieval and Reformation History at the University of Arizona, is Assistant Professor of Religion at Hope College in Holland, Michigan.