Interdisciplinary studies in the conceptualization and exercise of authority and power in the medieval Church.

This book challenges long-held assumptions over New Rome’s meteoric growth in ecclesiastical standing, offering in their place a fundamentally different reading of the early Constantinopolitan episcopate during the two landmark councils of 381 and 451 and the seven tumultuous decades between them.

This book proposes to analyze medieval Benedictine science using the library collection of Saint-Bertin as a vehicle.