Nullus alicui clerico episcopatum conferre debeat nisi rex. Royal Authority and Disputed Episcopal Elections during the late Carolingian Period
Fraser McNair
This article examines the language surrounding disputed episcopal elections in late Carolingian period, focussing particular on election to bishopric of Liege 921. It places used by participants dispute, which is strikingly favour legitimacy royal participation elections, context other such disputes from mid-ninth early tenth centuries. By doing so, discourse authority whilst still remarkably explicit justifying participation, argued be a natural continuation prior trends, fitting neatly into intensification authority. was change not so much kind as emphasis, although conceptions right kings participate per se remained roughly similar over these decades, ideas about opposition can seen shift, allowing more an active role and increasingly denying opponents kings.
The Medieval low countries. An annual review