The Bishop Builds a Bridge: Sanctity and Power in the Medieval Pyrenees
Jeffrey A. Bowman
The episcopate of Ermengol Urgell came to an abrupt end in November 1035. After a quarter-century presiding over his diocese the Catalan Pyrenees, suffered fatal accident. He had traveled place called Bar on banks Segre, river which descends rapidly from high Pyrenees through Urgell, build bridge. According biographer, did not go oversee construction bridge, but bridge himself--with own hands. 1 was what we might today call hands-on administrator and at least one contemporaries episcopus athleticus. While thus occupied, collapsed. bishop tumbled into waters skull crushed rocks below.
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