Episcopacy, Authority, and Gender - Aspects of Religious Leadership in Europe, 1100-2000

Both men and women have claimed to be the living voices or intermediaries of God. This volume analyses the basis of their authoritative claims and ask how and how far they succeeded in securing obedience from their followers.

About the author

Jan Wim Buisman (1954), Leiden University, is Lecturer of the History of Christianity at Leiden University. Moreover, he is Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal Church History and Religious Culture. He has published widely on the relations between Enlightenment and Christianity.

Marjet Derks (1958), Radboud University Nijmegen, is Assistant Professor of Cultural History. She has published on religious women, conversion movements, and gender in the religious sixties, including 'Changing Lanes: Dutch Women Witnessing the Second Vatican Council', Trajecta 22 (2013), 81-102.

Peter Raedts (1948), Radboud University Nijmegen, is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History. His last publications are The Discovery of the Middle Ages. History of a Delusion (2011) and The Invention of the Roman Catholic Church (2013), both in Dutch.

Product details

• Assisted by: Jan Wim Buisman (Editor), Marjet Derks (Editor), Peter Raedts (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.09.2015
• EAN: 9789004303119
• ISBN: 978-90-04-30311-9
• No. of pages: 252
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 241 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 544 g
• Series: Brill's Church History
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries