Anglo-Saxon Church Councils

by Catherine Cubitt

Anglo-Saxon church councils or synods were the fora where much ecclesiastical business was conducted, reforming canons were promulgated and cases involving clerical discipline and property transactions were adjudicated. More importantly they were also the meeting place of kings and bishops, and this study illuminates relations between secular and ecclesiastical power. The period under discussion witnessed the rise of the Mercian kings and an examination...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 071851436X
• ISBN13: 9780718514365
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Leicester University
• Length: 384 Pages