Afterword: Images Matter: The Cultural History of the Medieval Bishop
Maureen C. Miller
The bishop wielded significant authority in religious, intellectual, and political spheres during the Middle Ages, but how was this influence articulated, once it received? essays volume represent a variety of disciplinary perspectives, each tuned to production images made by, for, about medieval episcopacy. They present as model piety intellectual life well religious action. Considering material from Late Antiquity through thirteenth century, offer series case-studies demonstrating that crafting episcopal imagery complicated endeavour employing pictorial, historical, literary, historiographic devices. Never static institution, episcopacy formed reformed making visible bishop, those with whom he interacted, broader communities. These efforts at power authorities office asserted duties, expectations, ideals ways often specific time place. diverse perspectives on image assembled here reveal office, not singular contour, succession marks erasures. Shaped by supporters detractors alike, engaged historical models, responded realities, considered eschatological future.
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