Chapter Four. Episcopal Authority At Religious Communities
A. Trumbore Jones
Beginning at Chalcedon in 451 and continuing through the Carolingian period, church councils established subjection of monasteries to their diocesan bishops. Episcopal involvement religious communities has also been discussed context so-called proprietary or Eigenkirche. Traditionally, scholarship on this subject asserted a separation between authority clergy over churches based office one hand, that private individuals, which often undermined clerical authority, other. Bishops exercised power houses as judges. This chapter, among other things, suggests Ebles was not an ordinary abbot, with concomitant well-defined role Saint-Maixent, but rather his abbacy fluid position part multifaceted relationship Saint-Maixent. A particularly well-documented example evolution relations see house is monastery Saint-Cyprien bishops Poitiers.Keywords: abbatial title; Aquitaine; Bishop Ebles; period; Poitiers; episcopal authority; communities; Saint-Cyprien; Saint-Maixent
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