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Illumination by Master Honoréfrom a manuscript of the Decree of Gratian, showing a bishop seated on a throne with mitre and staff in front of two kneeling clerics, ca. 1290, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Bischofsherrschaft or "episcopal rule" refers to a phenomenon that occurred predominantly in late antiqueGaul, where the episcopate was also of secular importance, as well as the particularity of an increased occupation of the episcopate by the local Gallo-Romanaristocracy from the first third of the 5th century onwards.[1]
This was partly due to the specific circumstances of the Gallic cities with their large civitas territories,[2] whose self-confident elite saw themselves in part as an antithesis to the imperial centre in Italy and discovered in the office of bishop a suitable opportunity for political activity and the preservation of their social leadership position.[3]
German historical studies coined the term ‘terminus technicus’, which is also used in English and French research publications.[4]
^Werner Eck: Der Einfluss der konstantinischen Wende auf die Auswahl der Bischöfe im 4. und 5. Jahrhundert. In: Chiron. Vol. 8, 1978, p. 565f.
^Werner Eck: Der Einfluss der konstantinischen Wende auf die Auswahl der Bischöfe im 4. und 5. Jahrhundert. In: Chiron. Vol. 8, 1978, hier S. 583.