Episcopal Elections in Late Antiquity formatIsbn:Hardcover - 9783110268553 Klopstocks 'Messias' -- IV

Klopstocks 'Messias' -- IV

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Episcopal Elections in Late Antiquity formatIsbn:Hardcover - 9783110268553 Klopstocks 'Messias' -- IVThe present 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 that eventually resulted in one specific candidate becoming the new bishop, and not another. The importance of episcopal elections hardly needs stating: With the bishop emerging as one of the key figures of late