This is the first detailed comparative study of patronage as an instrument of power in the relations between kings and bishops in England and Normandy after the Conquest. Esteemed medievalist Everett U. Crosby considers new perspectives of medieval state-building and the vexed relations between secular and ecclesiastical authority.

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Everett U. Crosby is Professor of History in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia, USA.

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Book Title: The King’s Bishops
Book Subtitle: The Politics of Patronage in England and Normandy, 1066–1216
Authors: Everett U. Crosby
Series Title: The New Middle Ages
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137352125
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-30776-7Published: 12 September 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-45566-9Published: 08 November 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-35212-5Published: 04 September 2013
Series ISSN: 2945-5936
Series E-ISSN: 2945-5944
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 519
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, History of Medieval Europe, European History

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