David Rollason studied for his first degree at Balliol College, Oxford, where he sat at the feet particularly of J. M. Wallace-Hadrill, Peter Brown, and Henry Mayr-Harting; then for his PhD at the University of Birmingham, under the supervision of Wendy Davies and R. H. C. Davis, and – informally – of Philip Rahtz. After a year at the Collẻge de France, supervised by Georges Duby, he was appointed lecturer in history at the University of Durham in 1977. He retired in 2010 and remains Emeritus Professor, his most recent publication being The Power of Place: Rulers and Their Palaces, Landscapes, Cities, and Holy Places (2016) – the outcome of his 2010-13 Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship.

• List of figuresList of platesPreface1 Introduction: Researching the Palaces of Princes of the Church David Rollason PART I: PROJECTING IMAGES OF POWER2 Thomas Wolsey as the Ideal Cardinal and his Palace of Hampton Court Margaret Harvey 3 Late Antique Episcopal Complexes: Bishop Eufrasius and his Residence at Poreč (Croatia) Jaqueline P. Sturm 4 The Political and Cultural Significance of the Bishop's Palace in Medieval Italy Maureen C. Miller 5 ‘A Mere Domestic Life’: Catherine Talbot in the Georgian Episcopal Home Michael Ashby 6 Auckland Castle in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries: the Palace and Princely Power Ria Snowdon 7 Bishops’ Residences, Saints’ Cults, and the Legacy of Sacred Authority in the Medieval Dioceses of St Andrews and Glasgow Penelope Dransart PART II: PALACES, FORESTS, AND PARKS8 Pre-Conquest Regalian Roots of Episcopal Forests and Chases Graham Jones 9 English Bishops’ Hunting Rights, Hunts, and Hunting Grounds John Langton 10 Deer Parks and Masculine Egos: Knights, Priors, and Bishops in the Medieval North of England Andrew G. Miller 11 The Bishop of Durham's Park at Auckland Castle in the Middle Ages J. Linda Drury PART III: PALACES AND THE WORK OF THE BISHOP12 English Bishops’ Itineraries, c. 700-c. 1200 Julia Barrow 13 How to Travel with a Bishop: Thirteenth-Century Episcopal Itineraries Philippa M. Hoskin 14 Bishops’ Houses in Medieval London John Schofield 15 Why so Many Houses? The Varied Functions of the Episcopal Residences of the See of Winchester, c. 1130-c. 1680 John Hare 16 Evidence Regarding Bishops’ Use of Hall and Chamber in Later Thirteenth-Century England, with Observations Regarding Notarial Influence Michael Burger 17 The Gatehouse and Precincts of the Bishop’s Palace at Exeter Richard Parker PART IV: DESIGN, FUNCTION, AND DECORATION18 Ubi papa ibi Roma: the Bishop of Rome’s Residence in the Fourteenth Century: Avignon Gottfried Kerscher 19 Exeter Bishop’s Palace Stuart Blaylock 20 En Route and in Residence: Integrating Documentary and Archaeological Evidence for the Itineraries and Residences of the Medieval Bishops of Durham Caroline Smith and C. Pamela Graves, with Matt Claydon and Mark Randerson21 Auckland and Durham Castles in the Eighteenth Century Richard Pears 22 Bishop Hurd’s Library at Hartlebury Castle Christine Penney 23 Auckland and Durham Castles in John Cosin’s Time Adrian Green 24 Bishop Hugh of Le Puiset’s Great Hall at Auckland Castle: Its Place in English Twelfth-Century Architecture Malcolm Thurlby 25 St Davids Bishop’s Palace and its Remarkable Roofscape Rick Turner ReferencesIndex

"Editor David Rollason and his team are to be congratulated on a major contribution towards the mature understanding of historic buildings in their social and intellectual contexts. So too is Jonathan Ruffer, the munificent rescuer and benefactor of Bishop Auckland, to whom Princes of the Church is appropriately dedicated."- John Blair, University of Oxford, Reading Religion