Plenitude of Power

Robert C. Figueira is Professor of History at Lander University, Greenwood, South Carolina, USA.

• Chapter 1 Congrega seniores provinciae: A Note on a Hiberno-Latin Canon Concerning the Sources of Authority in Ecclesiastical Law, Bruce C. Brasington; Chapter 2 Saints, Pagans, War and Rulership in Ottonian Germany, David A. Warner; Chapter 3 Henry VI, Heresy and the Extension of Imperial Power in Italy, Peter D. Diehl; Chapter 4 Pseudo-Dionysius, Gilbert of Limerick and Innocent III: Order, Power and Constitutional Construction, Shannon M.O. Williamson; Chapter 5 The Medieval Papal Legate and His Province: Geographical Limits of Jurisdiction, Robert C. Figueira; Chapter 6 Potens et Pauper: Charity and Authority in Jurisdictional Disputes over the Poor in Medieval Cologne, Joseph P. Huffman; Chapter 7 Auctoritas, Potestas and World Order, James Muldoon; Chapter 8 Christendom before Europe? A Historiographical Analysis of ‘Political Theology’ in Late Antiquity 1. I have already published small portions of this article in my book Liberty, Dominion, and the Two Swords: On the Origins of Western Political Theology (180–398), Publications in Medieval Studies 28, ed. John Van Engen (Notre Dame, IN/London, 1998). I would therefore like to thank the University of Notre Dame Press for allowing me to publish them again without customary citation., Lester L. Field Jr; Chapter 9 ‘I Study Power’: The Scholarly Legacy of Robert Louis Benson with a Bibliography of his Published and Unpublished Works 1. Since Robert L. Benson left a large number of unpublished works, many of which will be published, I will endeavour in my text to give an indication of the main thrust of these articles without, however, providing a detailed summary or review of those works. For additional information on Benson’s bibliography, see note 38 placed with it at the end of this piece., John W. Bernhardt;

’The nine chapters in this volume highlight the extent and breadth of Benson’s scholarly legacy. They are wide-ranging, yet highly technical, in content; all but a few comment inductively, from narrow case studies, on the broader uses of authority in the Church between late antiquity and the fifteenth century. All are characterized by scholarship of the first order... The achievement of this volume is its interdisciplinarity: it forces readers to engage with scholarship outside their disciplines, surely the true aim of 'intellectual history', or Geistegeschichte. In this way it is a truly fitting tribute to Robert Benson.’ Church History