Bishops – Leaders and Ministers, Judges and Diplomats, Scholars and Saints. Variations on a Global Institution in the Middle Ages

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Bishops – Leaders and Ministers, Judges and Diplomats, Scholars and Saints . Variations on a Global Institution in the Middle Ages

Veranstalter
Kollegforschungsgruppe Polyzentrik und Pluralität vormoderner Christentümer (POLY) (Historisches Seminar, Goethe Universität Frankfurt)
Ausrichter
Historisches Seminar, Goethe Universität Frankfurt
Veranstaltungsort
Frankfurt
Gefördert durch
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
PLZ
60629
Ort
Frankfurt am Main
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
24.02.2022 - 25.02.2022
Website
https://www.geschichte.uni-frankfurt.de/92594738/Polycentricity_and_Plurality_of_Premodern_Christianities__POLY
Von
Dr. Ralph Barczok, Historisches Seminar, Goethe Universität Frankfurt

The workshop in Frankfurt from February 24–25, 2022 will focus on the many faces the episcopal office could assume in the course of the Middle Ages (ca. 700–1400) beyond the traditional theological and canonical interpretation of the transmitted sources. It seeks to cover a broad geographical area, ranging from al-Andalus to Iraq and from the Caucasus to Ethiopia.

Bishops – Leaders and Ministers, Judges and Diplomats, Scholars and Saints . Variations on a Global Institution in the Middle Ages

The episcopal office is a shared feature of Christianities around the globe. This of course also holds true for medieval times. Although the office originates from a common set of sources, the duties and the tasks of the bishop vary greatly in scope. The reasons for such variation include the actual political situation, the social and cultural interactions, and the regional as well as religious background. What power did bishops wield as political agents, as judges, or as counsellors? How and with whom did they interact, and for which purposes? What was expected of a newly elected bishop and which were the categories by which individuals were deemed good candidates for the episcopacy? How did that change the actual form of the office? For whom was the episcopal office desirable at all, and why? Were there other offices that took over episcopal duties by force or necessity? In times of political unrest, bishops assumed political leadership in their residential cities, such as in early medieval Gaul and in the Middle East after the Muslim conquest. They even participated in military activities. As physicians, scholars, and diplomats, they became influential agents in the courts of rulers. In certain regions they acted as judges within their own parish even in secular cases. But in other instances their importance was overshadowed by that of mighty abbots or powerful rulers so that bishops found themselves reduced to liturgical functions. At times the title of bishop was even taken up by other institutions and stripped of all religious meanings.

Programm

Thursday, February 24, 2022, 1:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Dorothea Weltecke (Berlin)
1:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Address of Welcome

Section I: Chair Dorothea Weltecke

Steffen Patzold (Tübingen)
1:15 pm – 2:00 pm
Bishops and their Office in the Early Medieval Frankish Kingdoms

Philip Wood (London)
2:05 pm – 2:50 pm
Melkite Bishops and their Critics in the Ninth-century Levant

30 min break

Section II: Chair Bernd Andreas Vest

Marianna Mazzola (Jerusalem)
3:20 pm – 4:05 pm
Dhimmi Bishops in a Muslim Polity: Syrian Orthodox Ecclesiastical Leadership and the Changing Dynamics of Power in the Omayyad and Early Abbasid Period (7th–9th c.)

Klaus-Peter Todt (Mainz)
4:10 pm – 4:55 pm
The Greek Orthodox Patriarchs and Bishops in Syria and Palestine in the Period from the Arabic Conquest of the Near East to the First Crusade (ca. 635–1095)

30 min break

Section III: Chair Birgit Emich

Stephen Rapp (Huntsville, TX)
5:25 pm – 6:10 pm
The Office of Bishop among the Georgians from Late Antiquity to the Mongol Conquest

Ana Echevarria (Madrid) / Matthias Maser (Erlangen–Nürnberg)
6:15 pm – 7:00 pm
The Role of Bishops under Muslim Rule in the Iberian Peninsula: between the Latin and the Eastern Churches

Friday, February 25, 2022, 9:00 am – 3:30 pm

Section IV: Chair Bruno Boute
Adam Łajtar (Warsaw)
9:00 am – 9:45 am
Nubian Bishops: Social Origin, Career Models, Operational Modes

Johannes Pahlitzsch (Mainz)
9:50 am – 10:35 am
Greek Orthodox Bishops as Judges in Late Byzantium, Lusignan Cyprus and the Melkite Church

30 min break

Section V: Chair Andreea Badea

Andrew Jotischky (London)
11:05 am – 11:50 am
Greek Bishops in the Latin Church: a Comparative Sketch of Institutional Pluralism

Ralph Barczok (Frankfurt)
11:55 am – 12:40 pm
The Office of the Metropolitan in the Syriac-Orthodox Church according to Michael the Great and Bar ‘Ebroyo

60 min break

Section VI: Chair Ralph Barczok

Martina Ambu (Paris)
1:40 pm – 2:25 pm
Yā‘ǝqob (1337–1344) and Salāmā “the Translator” (1348–1388), Metropolitans of Ethiopia: Two Opposite Political Models

Emanuel Van Elverdinghe (Louvain-la-Neuve)
2:30 pm – 3:15 pm
Bishops as Cultural Mediators in Medieval Armenia: Their Role in the Production and Circulation of Manuscripts

Dorothea Weltecke (Berlin)
3:15 pm – 3:30 pm
Conclusion

Kontakt

Register for the online event at: pluralchristianities@em.uni-frankfurt.de

Dr. Ralph Barczok
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Campus Westend
IG-Farben-Haus
Raum 4.412
Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1
60323 Frankfurt am Main

Telefon +49 (0)69 798 32433
Email barczok@em.uni-frankfurt.de

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