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The late antique and the early medieval periods witnessed the
flourishing of bishops in the West as the main articulators of
social life. This influential position exposed them to several
threats, both political and religious. Researchers have generally
addressed violence, rebellions or conflicts to study the dynamics
related to secular powers during these periods. They haven't paid
similar attention, however, to those analogous contexts that had
bishops as protagonists. This book proposes an approach to bishops
as threatened subjects in the late antique and early medieval West.
In particular, the volume pursues three main goals. Firstly, it
aims to identify the different types of threats that bishops had to
deal with. Then it sets out to frame these situations of adversity
in their own contexts. Finally, it will address the episcopal
strategies deployed to deal with such contexts of adversity. In
sum, we aim to underline the impact that these contexts had as a
dynamiting factor of episcopal action. Thus the episcopal threats
may become a useful approach to study the bishops' relationships
with other agents of power, the motivations behind their actions
and - last but not least - for understanding the episcopal rising
power
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