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The increased interest in religion as a phenomenon and its various
cultural contexts is encouraging a focus on the relationship
between religion and politics. However, the political relevance of
the religious and the interdependence between political and
religious spheres has always been a major area of medieval
research. The articles in this volume consider not only the
principle inseparability of both spheres as previously established
by research, but also the beginnings of a differentiation and
relative autonomy of religion and politics within the framework of
a comparison between Germany and the United Kingdom. This allows
the identification of restrictions within the research traditions
that are due to national histories and points to ways of overcoming
these restrictions.
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 Bischofe") is presented in English
translation for the first time."
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