Episcopus

CALL FOR PAPERS: EPISCOPUS welcomes submissions to four proposed sessions at ICMS Kalamazoo 2025:
* Bishops and Secular Clergy of Medieval Italy
* Bishops, Clerics, and Digital Medievalists (A Roundtable)
* The Church in the Fourteenth Century
* The Institutional Church in Medieval Iberia
In addition, we will be hosting a play-through of the Reacting to the Past game-in-development on 'The Investiture Controversy'.
For further details about how to submit proposals and whom to contact, see our website at https://episcopus.org/news .

News & CFPs Episcopus is excited to be organizing and co-organizing a strong variety of sessions for ICMS 2025. All those making contributions to sessions of papers or roundtables at the Congress need to make proposals in the Confex system (the conference portal) by the deadline of Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024. The g...

This new open-access volume includes articles likely to be of interest to a broad range of our members.

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Essays on Lay and Ecclesiastical Communities in and Around the Medieval Urban Parish, ed. Maria Amélia Álvaro de Campos (Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, July 2024)

https://monographs.uc.pt/iuc/catalog/book/448

This book gives a definite contribution to a wide-ranging reflection on the medieval parish and the secular clergy, considered within a long-term chronological framework and a wide geographical scope that allows the analysis and confrontation of case studies from the Iberian kingdoms, Northern France, Italian Piedmont, Lombardy, Flanders, Transylvania, and North of the Holy Roman Empire. The chapters published in this book tells of dynamics of social, religious, and cultural exclusion and inclusion within lay communities, of the constitution of family elites and parish confraternities; it shows the composition and the recruitment rationales of the parish clergy and of some ecclesiastical chapters with a duty of Cura animarum; it examines the relations of the churches and parochial clergy with more prominent – secular and regular – ecclesiastical institutions in the context of the establishment and exercise of the right of patronage; finally, it explores the role of the secular clergy in the application of justice, based on the characterization of their cultural and juridical formation.

CONTENTS:

Preface -- Maria Amélia Campos, Tiago Viúla de Faria and Flávio Miranda

Reflexions on Urban Parish Communities in Medieval Europe and its Relevance to Current Historiography -- Maria Amélia Campos

City Chapters with Cura Animarum. Territorial Recruitment and Social Composition of the Clergy in North-Western Italy (Twelfth-Fifteenth Century) -- Francesco Cissello & Elena Corniolo

Bishops and Dignitaries of Coimbra in the Thirteenth Century: A Prosopographical Study -- Maria do Rosário Morujão

The Legal Expertise of yhe Parish Clergy in Late Medieval Transylvania (Late Fourteenth to Early Sixteenth Century) -- Adinel C. Dinc

“qui miserit merdam in bocca alterius pectet ccc solidos:” Episcopal Lawcodes and Lordship in Twelfth Century Castile and León -- Kyle C. Lincoln

A Church Under Influence: The Cistercian Convent of Odivelas and the Patronage of the Collegiate Church of São Julião de Santarém (in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries) -- Mário Farelo & Luís Miguel Rêpas

The Exercise of Patronage by the Colegiada de Guimarães in the Church of São Miguel do Castelo during the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries -- Aires Gomes Fernandes

Inclusion and Exclusion between Church and Community: The Case of the “Lombard” Financiers (Thirteenth–Seventeenth Centuries) -- Ezio Claudio Pia

Medieval Jewish Quarters in Northern France and Urban Parishes (Twelfth-Fourteenth Centuries): Places of Identity and Cohabitation -- Manon Banoun

From Neighbours to Enemies and Back. Jewish-Christian Relations in Northern Europe -- Cordelia Heß

‘Artificial Families’ within the Parish: Intertwined Relationships between Confraternities and Parish Churches in Medieval Coimbra -- Ana Rita Rocha

Epilogue -- Beat Kümin

CALL FOR PAPERS: EPISCOPUS welcomes submissions to four proposed sessions at ICMS Kalamazoo 2025:

* Bishops and Secular Clergy of Medieval Italy
* Bishops, Clerics, and Digital Medievalists (A Roundtable)
* The Church in the Fourteenth Century
* The Institutional Church in Medieval Iberia

In addition, we will be hosting a play-through of the Reacting to the Past game-in-development on 'The Investiture Controversy'.

For further details about how to submit proposals and whom to contact, see our website at https://episcopus.org/news .

News & CFPs Episcopus is excited to be organizing and co-organizing a strong variety of sessions for ICMS 2025. All those making contributions to sessions of papers or roundtables at the Congress need to make proposals in the Confex system (the conference portal) by the deadline of Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024. The g...

Episcopus is pleased to be (co-)sponsoring several sessions at next years 60th(!) International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo.

Check out these splendid sessions below and submit a paper (or refer a colleague) before 15 September 2024:

The Church in the Fourteenth Century (ID: 6350)
https://icms.confex.com/icms/2025/paper/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=6350

The Institutional Church in Medieval Iberia (ID: 6132)
https://icms.confex.com/icms/2025/paper/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=6132

Even if you don't have a paper to send in, consider joining us for a workshop session about aReacting to the Past simulation in development about the Investiture Controversy!

The Investiture Controversy: A Reacting to the Past Game in Development (ID: 6128)

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Nancy Spies, The Mitre: Its Origins and Early Development (Brill Publishing, June 2024)

https://brill.com/display/title/69709

The story of the mitre began during the 11th-century church reform movements and was, surprisingly, inspired by a popular pastime. After a thousand years of bare heads, the Church finally had an official hat, signaling newly-structured internal dynamics, an increase in power and influence in society, and greater parity with secular leaders.

The Medieval Clergy, 800–1250: A Sourcebook, eds. John S. Ott and Anna Trumbore Jones (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, April 2024)

https://pims.ca/publication/isbn-978-0-88844-313-7/

The Medieval Clergy is a collection of documents from the ninth to thirteenth centuries by and about the so-called secular clergy – a group that included priests, bishops, deacons, and canons, whose primary responsibilities included ministering to laypeople.
For most medieval people, these clergy stood at the center of religious life: they served as the face of the church and the link between the faithful and God, between this life and the next. These clerics administered the sacraments, and their churches sheltered the poor, housed the relics of the saints, and offered places of protection and community. The documents collected here allow readers to explore the richness of the lives of these clergy: the ideals they strove to emulate, the complexity of their lived experiences, and the multifaceted roles they played – pastoral, sacramental, familial, social, educational, liturgical, memorial, military, economic, legal, and civic. Most of the documents here appear for the first time in English; the collection also includes dossiers of interconnected documents that allow students and non-specialists to explore individuals, ideas, and historical contexts in depth.

Danica Ramsey-Brimberg, Viking and Ecclesiastical Interactions in the Irish Sea Area from the 9th to 11th Centuries (Routledge, May 2024)

https://www.routledge.com/Viking-and-Ecclesiastical-Interactions-in-the-Irish-Sea-Area-from-the-9th-to-11th-Centuries/Ramsey-Brimberg/p/book/9781032372891

Different approaches have been conducted to analyse the interactions of the different belief systems in the early medieval world. This book assesses the relationship between clerics and Scandinavian-influenced laity in the Irish Sea area through the placement of furnished graves at or near ecclesiastical sites in the ninth through the eleventh centuries. Other areas of funerary studies have moved beyond a dichotomy of Christianity and paganism, acknowledging that practices can be multifaceted. Yet, statements regarding Viking Age furnished graves in or near ecclesiastical sites are still not as pervasively open to this line of thinking.

To bridge this gap, this book delves into the historiography and context of the burial practices through multidisciplinary analysis. The ecclesiastical sites and furnished graves of the eastern (southwest Scotland and northwest England), central (Isle of Man), and western (Ireland and Northern Ireland) Irish Sea areas are then examined using various sources to understand their contexts and relationships. In the final chapters, the sites and graves are brought together to identify any trends, any unique circumstances that led to local variances, and their fit into the larger picture. Viking Age furnished graves can be seen as an acceptable variation among an array of burial practices, and the relationship between the clergy and laity is far more complex and closely tied than has been portrayed.

Viking and Ecclesiastical Interactions in the Irish Sea Area from the 9th to 11th Centuries will appeal to students and scholars alike interested in the history of the Vikings in the British-Irish Isles and their relationships with ecclesiastical institutions.

James Barnaby, Religious Conflict at Canterbury Cathedral in the Late Twelfth Century: The Dispute between the Monks and the Archbishops, 1184-1200 (Boydell & Brewer, May 2024)

https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781783277667/religious-conflict-at-canterbury-cathedral-in-the-late-twelfth-century/

For fifteen years the monks of Christ Church Canterbury waged a war against their archbishop, over a plan to build a church to provide funds for their administration, dedicated to Thomas Becket. Fearing the loss of their most beloved (and lucrative) saint to this new institution, the monks embarked on a course of action which saw rioting in the streets of Canterbury, their excommunication, and the cathedral placed under siege by the archbishop.

Although at first glance an internal dispute between the archbishop and his cathedral chapter, it had a wide-ranging impact. The monks travelled thousands of miles in support of their cause, enlisting the backing of popes, cardinals, and the elites of Europe. In England, the kings during the period took a personal interest in the dispute, sometimes attempting to resolve it and sometimes hindering any chance of peace.

This book, the first full account of the conflict, draws on the huge collection of letters it provoked (one of the largest compiled in the twelfth century), alongside other sources such as monastic culture, to offer a detailed narrative of this complicated feud between Archbishops Baldwin of Forde, Hubert Walter and their cathedral monks; it also considers the continuations of the dispute in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. In addition, it analyses the key themes of the conflict: the role of royalty, travel, and the deployment of Thomas Becket.

Phillip Stump, Conciliar Diplomacy at the Council of Constance (1414–1418): Unity and Peacemaking in a World Historical Perspective (Brill Publishing, June 2024)

https://brill.com/display/title/64271

This book re-tells the story of how the Council of Constance ended the greatest Schism in Western Christendom. Using a nuanced and critical analysis of the primary sources, it reframes this drama with the Council itself as the principal actor. The Council performed its own legitimacy and its unity through a process of consensual decision-making and by conducting its own, previously little noticed, diplomacy. It succeeded where previous attempts to end the Schism had failed through its collective non-violent resistance.

Kalamazoo is just weeks away! Episcopus will be active there. This is our twentieth anniversary year, and we hope to see many of you at the following:

Thursday, May 9, 1:30 PM, session 83: "Pastoral Care and Secular Clergy", co-sponsored by the International Medieval Sermon Studies Society;

Thursday, May 9, 3:30 PM, session 127: "Holy Bishops: Bishops, the Cult of the Saints, and Holiness in the Medieval World", co-sponsored by the Hagiography Society;

Friday at noon, Episcopus Business Lunch (all cordially welcome, new and improved food this year!, $15), Student Center 3222; and

Friday at 1:30, VIRTUAL, session 262, "Episcopus twenty years on (Roundtable)", reflecting on the state of the field.

The Business Lunch is typically where we plan our conference sessions for the coming year, and we are always looking for fresh ideas. If you have any suggestions for topics, whether you will be at Kalamazoo or not, we invite you to submit them ahead of time to our email address at episcopussociety (at) gmail.com.

Finally, though this is not an Episcopus-sponsored event, I'm going to invoke presidential privilege to draw your attention to Saturday morning, 7:30, in Kanley Upper Chapel, where Morning Prayer will be said from the Anglican Book of Common Prayer issued IN LATIN in 1560.

-William (Bill) Campbell, President, Episcopus

Iberia Pontificia. Vol. VIII-IX. Dioeceses Secoviensis, Seguntina, Zamorensis (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, January 2024)

https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/detail/index/sArticle/58999/sCategory/1532

Die Bände VIII und IX der Iberia Pontificia erschließen für die Zeit vor dem Jahr 1198 alle päpstlichen Urkunden sowie die sonstigen nachweisbaren Kontakte zum Papsttum auf dem Gebiet der kastilisch-leonesischen Bistümer Segovia, Sigüenza und Zamora. Die wechselseitigen Beziehungen werden in etwas mehr als 400 kommentierten Regesten unter Angabe der Quellenüberlieferung zusammengefasst. Inhaltliche Schwerpunkte bilden vor allem die Kurienkontakte der Bischöfe, aber auch einiger Zisterzienserklöster wie Santa María de Moreruela (Diöz. Zamora). Obwohl in allen drei Bischofssitzen erst relativ spät, seit den 1120er Jahren, wieder eigene Bischöfe amtierten, lässt sich schon bald eine ausgeprägte Orientierung auf das Papsttum feststellen. Diese ergab sich aus kirchlichen Streit- und Rangfragen – etwa um die Metropolitanzugehörigkeit Zamoras –, war aber auch an die handelnden Personen gebunden, wie das Beispiel des Seguntiner Bischofs Cerebrun (amt. 1156–1166) zeigt, der während der Zeit des Alexandrinischen Schismas Papst Alexander III. eng verbunden war. Wie in der Iberia Pontificia-Reihe üblich bietet der Band neben den Regesten historische Einführungen zur Geschichte der Empfängerinstitutionen und ihrer Archivbestände.

Walter, Archdeacon of Thérouanne, The Life of Count Charles of Flanders, The Life of Lord John, Bishop of Thérouanne. And Related Works (Brepols, January 2024)

https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782503605074-1

This volume revolves around three men who knew each other well, oversaw the political and spiritual life of much of northern France and Flanders during the first third of the twelfth century, and died within five years of one another: Charles the Good, count of Flanders from 1119 to 1127; John of Warneton, archdeacon of Arras from 1096 to 1099 and bishop of Thérouanne from 1099 to 1130; and their common biographer, Walter, archdeacon of Thérouanne from 1116 to 1132. The volume includes a detailed historical introduction and offers the first English translations of Walter's biographies of Charles and John and of several other texts: Lambert of Saint-Omer’s Genealogy of the Counts of Flanders and its continuation, poems on the death of Charles the Good, the inquest into his murder, and selections from Galbert of Marchiennes’ The Transferal of Saint Jonatus to the Village of Sailly-en-Ostrevant, Simon of Saint Bertin’s continuation of the Deeds of the Abbots of Saint Bertin’s, Andreas of Marchiennes’ The Miracles of Saint Rictrude, and the third Genealogy of the Flemish Counts (Flandria generosa). The works translated in this volume are the principal sources for the reign and assassination of Charles the Good and the bishopric of John of Warneton that have not yet been translated into English. This volume will be of particular interest to scholars of medieval Flanders and to medieval legal, ecclesiastical, political and social historians in general.

Most of the source texts of this volume were edited in 2006 by Jeff Rider (Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaevalis, vol. 217). References to the corresponding pages of the Corpus Christianorum edition are provided in the margins of this translation.

The Church and Northern English Society in the Fourteenth Century: the Archbishops of York and their Records, eds. Paul Dryburgh and Sarah Rees Jones (Boydell & Brewer, February 2024)

https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781914049156/the-church-and-northern-english-society-in-the-fourteenth-century/

The period between 1304 and 1405 was one of tension and conflict in the north of England, culminating in a northern rebellion against the king, for which the then archbishop of York was executed for treason. The essays collected here explore the extensive administrative archives of the archbishops during this period. This is one of the largest but least exploited collections of medieval church records to survive in Europe, and is now dispersed across a number of institutions including The National Archives (London) and the Borthwick Institute for Archives (York). They examine the form and functions of the archbishops' registers and other archives, and use them to shed light on the ecclesiastical, political, cultural and social history of this turbulent period. The core focus is on the north of England and its relationship with royal government. Particular subjects addressed include the sources of tension and opportunity rooted in the prosecution of war with Scotland, the creation of networks of clerical administrators in royal government, and the impact of those networks on local society and royal affairs. Other topics include the wide-ranging spiritual and temporal responsibilities of the archbishops, their housing and landscapes, and the role of women within the church.

CONTENTS:

Introduction - Paul Dryburgh and Sarah Rees Jones

The Administrative Records of the Archbishops of York, 1304-1405 - Sarah Rees Jones

The Archbishops of York and the Government of Fourteenth-Century England - Paul Dryburgh

Support or Scourge? Archbishop William Melton and the Tradition of Loyal Opposition to the English Crown, 1317-1340 - †W. Mark Ormrod

Beyond the Border: The Influence of York Clerks in the Two Edwards' Scottish Administrations, 1332-1357 - Jenny M. McHugh

Responding to Royal Requirements: Clerical Taxation in the Province of York 1304-1405 - Rosemary C. E. Hayes

Ad insolenciam ipsius rebellis salubrius reprimendam: William Thorntoft, the Abbey of Rufford and Significations of Excommunication in the Northern Province - Jonathan Mackman

Blood, S*x and Holy Water: Reconciling Churches and Churchyards in the Medieval Diocese of York - Katherine Harvey

Structuring Episcopal Authority: Palaces and Residences of the Archbishop of York - Stefania Merlo Perring

Medieval Parks of the Archbishops of York - John S. Lee

Northern Ways? Pilgrimage, Politics and Piety in the Fourteenth-Century Administrative Records of the Archdiocese of York - John Jenkins

Underexplored Sources for Gender History: New Approaches to the Fourteenth-Century York Archbishops' Registers - Marianne Wilson

Joan of Leeds and Other Apostate Nuns in the Province of York, 1300-1350 - Helen Watt

Il Liber Maximus A del Capitolo cattedrale di Treviso, ed. Alfredo Michielin (Viella Editrice, December 2023)

https://www.viella.it/libro/9791254693957

Saldamente radicati nell’élite cittadina medievale, i capitoli delle cattedrali affiancano sempre ai compiti di servizio liturgico un ruolo culturale importante e il controllo di un patrimonio fondiario cospicuo. È quello che si riscontra anche nel caso del capitolo di Treviso. Negli anni ’30 del Trecento – quando la città veneta è governata dagli Scaligeri, altrove protagonisti di una politica ecclesiastica aggressiva e spregiudicata – esso mostra una insospettata capacità di autonomia e di resilienza, impostando e realizzando, grazie alla collaborazione di esperti notai cittadini, una massiccia campagna di censimento e di descrizione dei propri beni e diritti. Il risultato è il liber qui pubblicato, importante per le sue caratteristiche di ‘documento/monumento’, e nel contempo miniera inesauribile di dati per la storia economica, sociale e ambientale, nonché per la toponomastica, del territorio trevigiano.

Gerald of Wales, On the Deeds of Gerald, De gestis Giraldi, ed. and trans. Jacob Currie, With Thomas Charles-Edwards, and Paul Russell (Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press), December 2023)

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/gerald-of-wales-9780192869166

De gestis Giraldi is a narrative of the deeds of Gerald of Wales (c. 1146-1223), written in the third person but actually by Gerald himself, and framed as the biography of a bishop although Gerald never became a bishop. Gerald was born in south-west Wales of mixed Norman and Welsh descent and educated at Gloucester and in Paris. He worked for Henry II and Richard I, by whom he was valued as an intermediary between the king and Gerald's relations, who included the leading Welsh king, Rhys ap Gruffudd, and many of the first English settlers in Ireland. When elected bishop of St Davids, Gerald was sent by his fellow-canons to Rome to secure his own consecration and metropolitan status for St Davids; ultimately, both cases failed, defeated by the combined power and resources of the English state and church. Near the beginning of this final part, the single MS breaks off, but the chapter-headings show that much of the substance is preserved in another work by Gerald. His career spanned Wales, Ireland, and England, Paris and Rome, and De gestis Giraldi offers a vivid and personal view of them all.

This volume has been prepared from a critical study of the extant manuscript, and features an accompanying English translation. The edition supports the translation and text with an authoritative introduction, extensive historical notes, and critical study of the work.

Saint Louis University’s Crusade Studies Forum is pleased to announce its Fifth Quadrennial Symposium on Crusade Studies on SLU’s Madrid campus in Madrid, Spain, 3-5 October 2024. The plenary speakers will be Thomas Asbridge and Helen Nicholson.

Please see the attached CFP for further details. Abstracts of 250 words and session proposals should be submitted online at:

Symposium on Crusade Studies - Crusade Studies Forum
(http://www.crusadestudies.org/symposium-on-crusade-studies.html)

The submission deadline is 31 March, 2024.

DEADLINE APPROACHING!
Episcopus is seeking papers for two in-person sessions for the ICMS (Kalamazoo), May 9-11, 2024:
Session 4808: "Pastoral Care and Secular Clergy". Co-Sponsored with the International Medieval Sermon Studies Society.
Session 5060: "Holy Bishops: Bishops, the Cult of the Saints, and Holiness in the Medieval World". Co-Sponsored with the Hagiography Society.
Paper submissions are to be made 𝗻𝗼 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟱 through the portal at https://icms.confex.com/icms/2024/cfp.cgi . If you have questions about 4808, contact either William Campbell at whc7 [at] pitt.edu or Jessalynn Bird at jbird [at] stmarys.edu; direct questions about 5060 to William Campbell as above or Kyle Lincoln at kyle.c.lincoln [at] gmail.com.

Call for Papers Call for Papers

Episcopus is seeking papers for two in-person sessions for the ICMS (Kalamazoo) in May 2024:

Session 4808: "Pastoral Care and Secular Clergy". Co-Sponsored with the International Medieval Sermon Studies Society.

Session 5060: "Holy Bishops: Bishops, the Cult of the Saints, and Holiness in the Medieval World". Co-Sponsored with the Hagiography Society.

Paper submissions are to be made 𝗻𝗼 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟱 through the portal at https://icms.confex.com/icms/2024/cfp.cgi . If you have preliminary questions about 4808, contact either William Campbell at whc7 [at] pitt.edu or Jessalyn Bird at jbird [at] stmarys.edu; direct questions about 5060 to William Campbell as above or Kyle Lincoln at kyle.c.lincoln [at] gmail.com.

Call for Papers Call for Papers

Hispanophone colleagues may be interested in this virtual day-conference on August 23rd. (Buenos Aires time appears to be one hour ahead of Eastern Daylight time in the US.)

A Companion to Richard FitzRalph: Fourteenth-Century Scholar, Bishop, and Polemicist, eds. Michael W. Dunne and Simon Nolan (Brill Publishing August 2023)

https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/31958

This book presents an overview together with a detailed examination of the life and ideas of a major thinker and protagonist of the first half of the fourteenth century, Richard FitzRalph (1300-60, Armachanus). A central figure in debates at Oxford, Avignon and Ireland, FitzRalph is perhaps best-known for his central role in the poverty controversies of the 1350s. Each of the chapters collected here sheds a different perspective on the many aspects of FitzRalph’s life and works, from his time at the University of Oxford, his role as preacher and pastoral concerns, his contacts with the Eastern Churches, and finally his case at the Papal court against the privileges granted to the Franciscans. His influence and later reputation is also examined.

CONTENTS:

Introduction -- Michael W. Dunne and Simon Nolan O.Carm.

Part 1 Oxford Debates

Restricted Access

Richard FitzRalph on Beatitude -- Severin V. Kitanov

Mind as a Trinity of Intellect, Memory, and Will -- Michael W. Dunne

FitzRalph on the Activity of the Will -- Monika Michałowska

Controversy on Infinity between Richard FitzRalph and Richard Kilvington -- Elżbieta Jung

Belief and the State of Grace: FitzRalph, Wodeham, and Holcot on Faith, Theology, and Merit -- Severin V. Kitanov and John T. Slotemaker

Richard FitzRalph vs William Skelton, 1331–1332: The Attribution of the “Determinationes” in a Florence Manuscript -- Christopher Schabel

Richard FitzRalph and Future Contingents -- Jean-François Genest†

Part 2 Influences and Reactions

Bishop Grandisson of Exeter, Richard FitzRalph’s Patron: The Ideology of a Régime and Its Significance for FitzRalph’s Intellectual Biography -- Michael Haren

Richard FitzRalph and the Friars -- Emergence and Course of the Conflict
Author: Michael Haren

Wyclif, the Lollards, and the Middle English Tradition: Incorporations and Rejections of FitzRalph’s Views -- Bridget Riley

Pages:
352–382

Dominium: FitzRalph at Basel -- Stephen Lahey

The Continental Reception of FitzRalph’s Philosophical Theology until the Council of Florence -- Christopher Schabel

Views from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries -- Simon Nolan O.Carm.

Appendix 1 Principal Manuscripts and Table of Quaestiones of the Lectura in Sententias

Members who are interested either in the Scottish clergy, OR in clerical networks, may be interested to visit the People of Medieval Scotland (POMS) Project. Many of the thousands of recorded people are clergy, as the principal sources are charter witness lists. Extensive network graphs allow the user to explore co-occurrence (who signed charters with whom) and thus to reconstruct social networks and weigh a signatory's degree of connectedness. To view the network graphs, choose Networks and then select from the "Choose graph" dropdown.

People of Medieval Scotland The royal charters of Robert I (1306-29), David II (1329-71) and Edward Balliol (ruled in opposition, 1332-56) are currently being added to the database and will appear soon on the public website as part of the AHRC-funded 'Community of the Realm in Scotland, 1249-1424: history, law and charters in....

The Deeds of the Neapolitan Bishops: A Critical Edition and Translation of the ‘Gesta Episcoporum Neapolitanorum’, ed. trans. Luigi Andrea Berto (Routledge, May 2023)

https://www.routledge.com/The-Deeds-of-the-Neapolitan-Bishops-A-Critical-Edition-and-Translation/Berto/p/book/9781032042398

In the early Middle Ages Naples underwent huge changes. She was able to acquire complete independence from the Byzantine Empire and to emerge as one of the major powers in southern Italy. Moreover, Naples avoided becoming part of the Frankish Empire, being subdued by the Lombards of southern Italy, and being attacked by the Muslims, who had conquered Sicily.

The Deeds of the Neapolitan Bishops, the only medieval historical text composed in Naples before the 14th century, not only reports the biographies of the Neapolitan bishops during those centuries, but also describes the history of Naples and the relationships the Neapolitans had with their dangerous neighbors. This volume presents the analysis, Latin text, English translation, and historical commentary of this work, thus offering an important contribution for a better understanding of early medieval southern Italian (and Mediterranean) history.

The book will appeal to scholars and students of chronicles, Naples, and Church history in early medieval Italy, as well as all those interested in medieval Europe and the Mediterranean.

Will you be heading to Leeds IMC in July? There is a late-breaking opening for a paper in Episcopus-sponsored Session 645, 'Facets of Clerical Power in the Long Middle Ages'. (Paper c has been withdrawn.) The IMC organisers have been informed and the opportunity should soon be posted on the Late Call for Papers at https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2023/latecall/ .

IMC 2023: Late Call for Papers : International Medieval Congress Late paper proposals are considered on a first come, first served basis and will be passed directly to the relevant session organiser for review.

Dear Colleagues,

We hope this message finds you well, and that the past few months have been both restful and productive for you. We are reaching out to remind you that next month at the Kalamazoo Medieval Congress (May 11-May 13), Episcopus will be sponsoring three fantastic sessions and conducting our annual business meeting.

Session 287 is a roundtable on Teaching the Medieval Bishop which we are co-sponsoring with TEAMS (Teaching Associations for Medieval Studies) and will feature Evan A. Gatti, Kalani Craig, and Sigrid Danielson as speakers. This event will be conducted in a hybrid format via Zoom and at Schneider Hall 1340 on Friday, May 12 at 3:30pm.

Session 398 is a roundtable discussion called Brevia on Bishops and the Secular Clergy. Our three speakers, Roman Volodymyrovych Ivashko, Benjamin Bertrand, and Evan A. Gatti will bring short presentations about their current research questions to discuss as a group. There will be ample opportunities for contributions from the audience and we hope to have a lively discussion with everyone! This virtual event will take place via Zoom on Saturday, May 13 at 1:30pm.

Session 441 is a panel on Mendicant Friars and the Secular Church: Controversy, Coexistence, Collaboration which we are co-sponsoring with the Franciscan Institute of St. Bonaventure University and which will feature presentations by Anne-Frances Le, Esther Theresa Jermann, and Hannah L. Jones. This event will occur in-person in Schneider Hall 1320 on Saturday, May 13 at 3:30pm.

We also hope that interested members will attend our Annual Business Meeting to discuss the coming year for Episcopus. In addition to the usual business, we will discuss opportunities for sponsoring panels at Kalamazoo and Leeds in the coming year and would be delighted to hear suggestions for panels from Episcopus members. This event will take place in Fetzer Center 1035 on Saturday, May 13 from 12:00-1:00pm.

We look forward to seeing you all at the 'Zoo!