TY - BOOK ID - 78074846 TI - Episcopal appointments in England, c. 1214-1344 : from episcopal election to papal provison PY - 2014 SN - 1317141997 1472420306 9781472420305 9781409456155 1409456153 131558011X 1317142004 PB - Burlington, Vermont : Ashgate Pub. Company, DB - UniCat KW - Bishops KW - Clergy KW - Election law (Canon law) KW - Archbishops KW - Major orders KW - Metropolitans KW - Orders, Major KW - Chaplains, Bishops' KW - Episcopacy KW - Canon law KW - Clergy members KW - Clergymen KW - Diocesan clergy KW - Ecclesiastics KW - Indigenous clergy KW - Members of the clergy KW - Ministers (Clergy) KW - Ministers of the gospel KW - Native clergy KW - Ordained clergy KW - Ordained ministers KW - Pastors KW - Rectors KW - Secular clergy KW - Religious leaders KW - Appointment, call, and election KW - History. KW - Great Britain KW - Church history UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78074846 AB - Bishops were central figures in medieval society and the circumstances of their appointments are of great historical importance. This book considers the theory and practice of free canonical election in its heyday under Henry III and Edward I, and the nature of and reasons for the subsequent transition to papal provision. An analysis of the theoretical evidence for this subject (including canon law, royal pronouncements and Lawrence of Somercote's remarkable 1254 tract on episcopal elections) is combined with a consideration of the means by which bishops were created during the reigns of Henry ER -