Episcopal elections 250-600 hierarchy and popular will in late antiquity. - Norton, Peter 1956- (Oxford Oxford University Press, 2007)
Legislation and theory -- The electorate : local communities and public disorder -- Imperial intervention -- Provinces and patriarchs : organizational structures -- The metropolitan system in the West -- The Eastern metropolitans -- Corruption, constraint, and nepotism -- Three disputed elections.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [260]-266) and index.
Keywords: Bishops -- Appointment, call, and election&delete& -- History; Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600; Clergy -- Appointment, call, and election&delete& -- History; Election law (Canon law); 262.12 -- Episcopaat: aartsbisschop; primaat; bisschop; metropoliet; patriarch; exarch