1: Introduction
2: Legislation and theory
3: The electorate: local communities and public disorder
4: Imperial intervention
5: Provinces and patriarchs: organizational structures
6: The metropolitan system in the West
7: The eastern metropolitans
8: Corruption, constraint, and nepotism
9: Three disputed elections
10: Conclusion
Peter Norton teaches at the Dragon School, Oxford.
[an] important volume...Norton's fine study provides a welcome
addition to scholarship while also pointing toward further fruitful
avenues of investigation...Norton has provided the best overview of
the topic available, and his book will serve as a point reference
for all subsequent investigations of episcopal elections in late
antiquity.
*S.W.J Keough Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses*
lucidly written and cogently argued
*Adam A.J. DeVille Logos: A Journal of Early Christian Studies*
this is a thorough work, which marshals the evidence for its thesis
convincingly and well.
*Robin Ward, Journal of Theological Studies*
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