Spirituality and Administration: The Role of the Bishop in Twelfth Century Auxerre: Volume 5 Speculum Anniversary Monographs
by: Bouchard, Constance Brittain

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Medieval Academy of America, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 152 pages. Bouchard's work is erudite and provides a picture of the development of the shifting relationship between the pastoral demands placed on the prelates and those of the secular administrative. Some coped with the phenomenal increase of secular administration over the century better than others. Some coped with the machinations of local counts and even kings who would seize property almost at a whim better than others. One even defied the Pope until threatened with excommunication if he did not accept his 'promotion'. Clean copy.