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- Title
Fronto, the bishops, and the crowd: Episcopal justice and communal violence in fifth-century Tarraconensis.
- Authors
Kulikowski, Michael
- Abstract
Augustine’s Epistula 11* was addressed to the bishop of Hippo by an aristocratic laymen called Consentius. The letter recounts, ostensibly verbatim, the tribulations of the Spanish monk Fronto in his efforts to prosecute what he regards as a heretical conspiracy amongst the clergy ofHispania Tarraconensis. Fronto's narrative is a rare first-person account of the late antique judicial process, in all its complexity of overlapping imperial and ecclesiastical jurisdictions. The present article examines the letter's evidence for judicial strategies and rhetoric, as well as the role of status, power and violence in influencing legal outcomes.
- Subjects
BISHOPS; EPISCOPACY; JUSTICE; VIOLENCE; COURTS
- Publication
Early Medieval Europe, 2002, Vol 11, Issue 4, p295
- ISSN
0963-9462
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.0963-9462.2002.00113.x