Church, Book, And Bishop

To show how authority came to be shared among the institutions of Church, book and bishop, this work offers vignettes drawn from the first seven centuries of Christian clerical life that reflect the struggle to devise management strategies to resolve theological, political and social conflict.

Peter Iver Kaufman is professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Redeeming Politics Prayer, Despair, and Drama: Elizabethan Introspection The Polytyque Churche: Religion and Early Tudor Political Culture and Augustinian Piety and Catholic Reform as well as over 30 articles on church history.