< >In medieval Europe, the death of a king could not only cause a dispute about the succession, but also a severe crisis. In times of a vacant throne particular responsibility fell to the bishops - whose general importance for the time around the first milennium has been revealed by recent scholarship - as royal counsellors and policy makers. This volume therefore concentrates on the bishops' room for manoeuvre and the patterns of episcopal power, focusing on the Eastern Frankish Reich and Anglo-Saxon England in a comparative approach which is not least based upon the research of a renowned medievalist, Timothy Reuter. His article about 'A Europe of Bishops' ('Ein Europa der Bischöfe') is presented in English translation for the first time. < >Ludger Körntgen, Dominik Waßenhoven, University ofBayreuth, Germany.
Preface 6 Contents 8 Abkürzungsverzeichnis/List of Abbreviations 10 Introduction 12 A Europe of Bishops. The Age of Wulfstan of York and Burchard of Worms 18 Monition and Advice as Elements of Politics 40 The Changing Political Horizons of gesta episcoporum from the Ninth to Eleventh Centuries 52 Bedrängte und belohnte Bischöfe. Recht und Politik als Parameter bischüflichen Handelns bei Willigis von Mainz und anderen 64 Swaying Bishops and the Succession of Kings 90 Bishops and Succession Crises in Tenth- and Eleventh-Century England 112 Royal Women and Transitions. Emma and Ælfgifu in 1035–1042/1043 128 Two Anglo-Saxon Bishops at Work. Wulfstan, Leofric and Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 190 146 Selective Bibliography on Bishops in Medieval Europe, from 1980 to the present day 164 Editions, Translations, Regesta and Series episcoporum 164 Comprehensive and Comparative Studies 167 Studies on Anglo-Saxon England 176 Studies on the Ottonian-Salian Kingdom 185 Autorenverzeichnis/List of Contributors 226