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Bishops, Community and Authority in Late Roman Society : Northwestern Hispania, c. 370-470 C.E. / Rebecca Devlin.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Late Antique and Early Medieval Iberia ; 13Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2024]Copyright date: 2024Description: 1 online resource (416 p.)Content type:
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  • 9789048554072
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 282/.46 23/eng/20240805
LOC classification:
  • BR1024 .D48 2024
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations and Preliminary Notes -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: The Clerical Communities of Late Roman Gallaecia -- Part 1 The Late Fourth Century -- 2 Symphosius and his Community: Asturicensis in the Late Fourth Century -- 3 Exuperantius, Ortigius, and the Clerical Community of Lucensis in the Late Fourth Century -- 4 Paternus and his Community: Braga in the Late Fourth Century -- Part 2 The Fifth Century -- 5 Travel, Trade and Theological Debates: Orosius and the Clerical and Lay Christian Community of Braga -- 6 Hydatius and the Clerical Community of Gallaecia: Conflict, Chaos, and the Culmination of Episcopal Authority in Society -- 7 Conclusion: From Symphosius of Astorga to Hydatius of Aquae Flaviae and Beyond -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: When the bishop Hydatius found himself held hostage in Gallaecia, a Roman province in the northwestern Iberian Peninsula, by a band of Sueves in the year 460, he deployed his experience as an ambassador for his congregation and used his captivity as a tool for negotiating peace. As this example shows, bishops held considerable economic, political, and social power in the early Middle Ages. The expansion of ecclesiastical influence was not, however, a simple consequence of the legalization of Christianity or a power vacuum that followed the withdrawal of imperial authority. The transformation of the episcopate resulted instead from dynamic processes to which all status groups contributed and that are best understood through contextual and diachronic analysis. This monograph focuses on the clerical community in Gallaecia and employs a case study and interdisciplinary approach, incorporating written and material evidence, to put bishops like Hydatius in their larger social and economic contexts to elucidate why the people living and working in their sees would imbue them with increasing authority and explain how their roles within their local communities expanded.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations and Preliminary Notes -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: The Clerical Communities of Late Roman Gallaecia -- Part 1 The Late Fourth Century -- 2 Symphosius and his Community: Asturicensis in the Late Fourth Century -- 3 Exuperantius, Ortigius, and the Clerical Community of Lucensis in the Late Fourth Century -- 4 Paternus and his Community: Braga in the Late Fourth Century -- Part 2 The Fifth Century -- 5 Travel, Trade and Theological Debates: Orosius and the Clerical and Lay Christian Community of Braga -- 6 Hydatius and the Clerical Community of Gallaecia: Conflict, Chaos, and the Culmination of Episcopal Authority in Society -- 7 Conclusion: From Symphosius of Astorga to Hydatius of Aquae Flaviae and Beyond -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index

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When the bishop Hydatius found himself held hostage in Gallaecia, a Roman province in the northwestern Iberian Peninsula, by a band of Sueves in the year 460, he deployed his experience as an ambassador for his congregation and used his captivity as a tool for negotiating peace. As this example shows, bishops held considerable economic, political, and social power in the early Middle Ages. The expansion of ecclesiastical influence was not, however, a simple consequence of the legalization of Christianity or a power vacuum that followed the withdrawal of imperial authority. The transformation of the episcopate resulted instead from dynamic processes to which all status groups contributed and that are best understood through contextual and diachronic analysis. This monograph focuses on the clerical community in Gallaecia and employs a case study and interdisciplinary approach, incorporating written and material evidence, to put bishops like Hydatius in their larger social and economic contexts to elucidate why the people living and working in their sees would imbue them with increasing authority and explain how their roles within their local communities expanded.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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