...In the first of his letters criticizing cyfraith Hywel, written as a result of a dispute between Llywelyn ap Gruffudd and Bishop Anian of Bangor in 1279, Archbishop John Pecham accused Llywelyn of having usurped ecclesiastical property and of disregarding the Catholic Church's...

..., formal anathemas and recantations, declarations of deposition, and the public reading of documents. Yet the actual evidence for the various councils that supported or condemned religious images shows clearly that in Byzantium as elsewhere ecclesiastics changed sides, negotiated their positions...

...This chapter analyses concrete legal processes involving accusations of heresy in late antiquity. Topics discussed include heretics before the courts, the use of heresy accusations by private individuals, and ecclesiastics and accusations of heresy. ‘Each of us was afraid that, if expelled...

... rapid change. In setting out to rewrite the history of the practice of late Roman law, I have self‐consciously used the surviving works of ‘ecclesiastical’ writers and ‘Christian’ theologians, alongside other literary and documentary evidence, including the later papyri and rhetorical handbooks...

... of Tory convictions among the parochial clergy. It points out that the notion of a ‘political churchman’ could hardly be said to have existed at the Reformation, because leading ecclesiastics were simply integrated into the process of government. Carlyle Thomas political economy Church Congress...

...This introductory chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about religion and Enlightenment in England during the 18th century and the theological debate from John Locke to Edmund Burke. This book examines the emergence of the so-called enlightened ecclesiastics and their role...

...This chapter argues that the fact that some key late Roman ecclesiastics were trained as forensic practitioners is crucial to explaining how it was that early ‘canon law’ was elaborated using specific techniques and procedures ‘borrowed’ from Roman law. The various foundational strands of early...

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... Theodore “White Night A” Mew Anglo-Catholicism asceticism ecclesiastics dancing holy orders monasticism Oxford Movement performance Ritualism Roman Catholicism It was a tendency that first came to widespread attention in England through the controversial writings of certain tutors...

...This introductory chapter explores opposing semiotic systems in conflict as Carolingian ecclesiastics attempted to neutralize the power of what were, to them, implausible, alien, or threatening rituals in which women acted autonomously in the realm of the sacred. The mindset that women were...

...This chapter examines the emergence of the so-called enlightened ecclesiastics and the development of an anti-dogmatic tradition in England during the 1700s. These developments resulted in the division of the Church of England during this period. The rational theology of progress based...

...This chapter demonstrates the forensic expertise of certain key late Roman ecclesiastics and lay Christians. This expertise was not simply gleaned from a general late Roman legal culture; the biographical evidence suggests a career-orientated education. The training of leading...

.... The role of the bishops was that of a group of lobbyists determined, partly no doubt from personal motives, to keep the grievance of a much wider range of ecclesiastics before the eyes of the emperor and his ministers. Eudoxia performed the vital role of a link between the dissatisfied clerics...

...0 01 06 1995 Anglo-Saxon ecclesiastics and, to a lesser extent, their congregations were surrounded by inscriptions. This is quite clear despite the fact that the vast majority of relevant primary material has been lost. Painted or incised legends of a wide variety of forms occurred...