The Bishop's Palace

Miller also contends that this struggle for power had highly significant, but mixed, results for western Christianity. On the one hand, as bishops lost direct governing authority in their cities, they devised ways to retain status, influence and power for cultural practices. This response to loss was highly creative. On the other hand, their loss of secular control led bishops to emphasize their spiritual powers and use them to obtain temporal ends. The coercive use of spiritual authority contributed to the emergence of a "persecuting society" in the central Middle Ages.

About the author

Maureen C. Miller is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of The Formation of a Medieval Church: Ecclesiastical Change in Verona, 950-1150 (winner of the 1993 John Gilmary Shea Prize given by the American Catholic Historical Association), also from Cornell, and Power and the Holy in the Age of the Investiture Conflict.

Summary

This lavishly illustrated book looks at the art and architecture of episcopal palaces as expressions of power and ideology. Tracing the history of the bishop's residence in the urban centers of northern Italy over the Middle Ages, Maureen C. Miller...

Product details

• Authors: Maureen Miller, Maureen C Miller, Maureen C. Miller
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.06.2000
• EAN: 9780801435355
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-3535-5
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 183 mm x 261 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 925 g
• Series: Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past; Conjunctions of Religion and P; Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past; Conjunctions of Religion and P
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture