TY - BOOK AU - Burger,Michael TI - Bishops, clerks, and diocesan governance in thirteenth-century England: reward and punishment SN - 9781139526180 (electronic bk.) AV - BR750 .B87 2012eb U1 - 282/.4209022 23 PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Benefices, Ecclesiastical KW - England KW - History KW - Church polity KW - Church discipline KW - HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain KW - bisacsh KW - RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic KW - Church history KW - 1066-1485 KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note: Part I. The Problem: 1. Introduction; 2. Dangers of service; Part II. Rewards and Punishments: 3. Benefice for service and for benefit; 4. Security of tenure in benefices; 5. Pensions; 6. Other rewards; 7. Punishment; Part III. Consequences: 8. Patronage hunger; 9. Continuity and discontinuity in administration; 10. Affection and devotion; 11. Conclusions: culture and context N2 - "This book investigates how bishops deployed reward and punishment to control their administrative subordinates in thirteenth-century England. Bishops had few effective avenues available to them for disciplining their clerks and rarely pursued them, preferring to secure their service and loyalty through rewards. The chief reward was the benefice, often granted for life. Episcopal administrators' security of tenure in these benefices, however, made them free agents, allowing them to transfer from diocese to diocese or even leave administration altogether; they did not constitute a standing episcopal civil service. This tenuous bureaucratic relationship made the personal relationship between bishop and clerk more important. Ultimately, many bishops communicated in terms of friendship with their administrators, who responded with expressions of devotion. Michael Burger's study brings together ecclesiastical, social, legal and cultural history, producing the first synoptic study of thirteenth-century English diocesan administration in decades. His research provides an ecclesiastical counterpoint to numerous studies of bastard feudalism in secular contexts"-- UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=465749 ER -