Episcopal elections 250-600 hierarchy and popular will in late antiquity /

Norton, Peter, 1956-

Episcopal elections 250-600 hierarchy and popular will in late antiquity / [electronic resource] : Peter Norton. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007. - xi, 271 p. - Oxford classical monographs. . - Oxford classical monographs. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [260]-266) and index.

Legislation and theory -- The electorate : local communities and public disorder -- Imperial intervention -- Provinces and patriarchs : organizational structures -- The metropolitan system in the West -- The Eastern metropolitans -- Corruption, constraint, and nepotism -- Three disputed elections.

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Bishops--Appointment, call, and election--History.
Clergy--Appointment, call, and election--History.
Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Election law (Canon law)

BV664 / .N67 2007

262/.1213