Representations of the warrior-bishop in eleventh-century Lotharingia.
Given the legal proscriptions against clerics bearing arms, the biographers of bishops who engaged in warfare faced a difficult task when they attempted to justify their heroes' military activities. In eleventh-century Lotharingia, they did so by styling bishops as defenders of an oppressed populace...
| Publicado en: | Early Medieval Europe Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 103 - 131 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Feb2016
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