Representations of the warrior-bishop in eleventh-century Lotharingia
Jen Webb
Given the legal proscriptions against clerics bearing arms, biographers of bishops who engaged in warfare faced a difficult task when they attempted to justify their heroes' military activities. In eleventh-century Lotharingia, did so by styling as defenders an oppressed populace. Two such biographies from Liege reach opposite assessment warrior-bishop. Their contrasting tone reveals changes attitudes about relationship between church and over course eleventh century, issues episcopal power righteous violence dominated discourse, not only at but far beyond it.
Early Medieval Europe