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 - as royal counsellors and policy makers. This volume therefore concentrates on the bishops' room for manoeuvre and the patterns of episcopal power, focusing on the Eastern Frankish Reich and Anglo-Saxon England in a comparative approach which is not least based upon the research of a renowned medievalist, Timothy Reuter. His article about "A Europe of Bishops" ("Ein Europa der Bischöfe") is presented in English translation for the first time.

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Preface
Abkürzungsverzeichnis/List of Abbreviations
Introduction
A Europe of Bishops. The Age of Wulfstan of York and Burchard of Worms
Monition and Advice as Elements of Politics
The Changing Political Horizons of gesta episcoporum from the Ninth to Eleventh Centuries
Bedrängte und belohnte Bischöfe. Recht und Politik als Parameter bischüflichen Handelns bei Willigis von Mainz und anderen
English Summary
Swaying Bishops and the Succession of Kings
Bishops and Succession Crises in Tenth- and Eleventh-Century England
Royal Women and Transitions. Emma and Ælfgifu in 1035–1042/1043
Two Anglo-Saxon Bishops at Work. Wulfstan, Leofric and Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 190
Selective Bibliography on Bishops in Medieval Europe, from 1980 to the present day
Autorenverzeichnis/List of Contributors

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