Episcopal elections in late antiquity / edited by Johan Leemans [and others].

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Papers in English, French, and German.

The election of a new bishop was a defining moment for local Christian communities in Late Antiquity. This volume contributes to a reassessment of the phenomenon of episcopal elections from the broadest possible perspective, examining the varied combination of factors, personalities, rules and habits that played a role in the process. Building on the state of the art regarding late antique bishops and episcopal election, this interdisciplinary volume of collected studies by leading scholars offers fresh perspectives by focussing on specific case-studies and opening up new approaches.

Episcopal elections in late antiquity : structures and perspectives / Peter Van Nuffelen, Johan Leemans -- Episcopal succession in Antioch in the sixth century / Pauline Allen -- The election of Ambrose of Milan / Timothy David Barnes -- Theodoret of Cyrrhus and Syrian episcopal elections / George A. Bevan -- L'élection d'archevêques diphysites au trône alexandrin (451-482) : une désignation artificielle et contrainte? / Philippe Blaudeau -- Bischofswahl und Bischofsernennung im Synodicon Orientale / Peter Bruns -- La royauté mérovingienne et les élections épiscopales au Vie siècle / Bruno Dumézil -- Canonical legislation on the ordination of bishops : Innocent I's letter to Victricius of Rouen / Geoffrey D. Dunn -- Christlicher Euergetismus ob honorem? : die Einsetzung von Klerikern in ihre Ämter und die von diesen vorangetriebenen Bauprojekte / Rudolf Haensch -- Clerical marriage and episcopal elections in the Latin West : from Siricius to Leo I / David G. Hunter -- The saint and the bishop : Severinus of Noricum / Veit Rosenberger -- Bishops and clerics during the fourth century : numbers and their implications / Raymond Van Dam -- The rhetoric of rules and the rule of consensus / Peter Van Nuffelen -- Les élections épiscopales en Égypte aux VIe-VIIe siècles / Ewa Wipszycka -- Bischofswahlen in Rom (3.-6. Jh.) : Bedingungen, Akteure, Verfahren / Eckhard Wirbelauer -- Les élections épiscopales en Orient sous Sévère d'Antioche (512-518) / Frédéric Alpi -- -- ut sancto sanctus succederet -- oder, Haben Heilige eine Wahl? : ein Ausblick auf die frühmittelalterliche Bischofserhebung in den Viten heiliger Bischöfe / Daniel Alt -- Bishop Pesynthios of Koptos (Egypt) : "he did not pursue the honour, but it was the honour that pursued him" / Renate Dekker -- An extraordinary bishop : Eusebius of Caesarea in Cappadocia / Federico Fatti -- The election and deposition of Meletius of Antioch : the fall of an integrative bishop / Oliver Hihn -- Haeres Petri : Kontinuität und Wandel in der Bischofsnachfolge des Siricius von Rom / Christian Hornung -- Episcopal succession as criterion of communion : the rise of rival episcopal genealogies in Alexandria according to Liberatus of Carthage / Shawn W.J. Keough -- Epiphanius of Cyprus vs. John of Jerusalem : an improper ordination and the escalation of the Origenist controversy / Young Richard Kim -- Episcopal elections in Gaul : the normative view of the Concilia Galliae versus the narrative accounts / Susan Loftus -- Ecclesia non abhorret a sanguine : les élections épiscopales dans l'Église arménienne aux IVe-Ve siècles / Aram Mardirossian -- Education, humility and choosing ideal bishops in late antiquity / Jaclyn Maxwell -- The manipulation of tradition : the past as a tool for political and religious victory during the Laurentian controversy / David McOmish -- Episcopal elections in 5th-century Vandal North Africa / Carla Nicolaye -- Bischofswechsel in Edessa zur Zeit der christologischen Auseinandersetzung / Claudia Rammelt -- Zum Beispiel Proklos von Konstantinopel : über Chancen und Grenzen des spätantiken Bischofsamtes / Josef Rist -- The election of Sahak I as Catholicos of the Armenian Church / Oleh Shchuryk -- Procedure and hierarchy : models of episcopal election in late antique conciliar and papal rule making / Andreas Thier -- Episcopal self-presentation : Sidonius Apollinaris and the episcopal election in Bourges AD 470 / Johannes A. van Waarden -- The election of Paul the Jew (519) in light of the Theopaschite controversy / Dana Iuliana Viezure.

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