Название: Jocelin of Wells: Bishop, Builder, Courtier
Автор: Robert Dunning
Издательство: Boydell Press
ISBN: 1843835568
Год: 2010
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 236
Размер: 7,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

Jocelin, bishop of Wells [d. 1242], is an iconic figure in his native city; but his career as courtier and statesman moved far beyond the west country. From a family network which had produced bishops over several generations, heplayed a major role in a developing diocese and mother church, and in the growth of towns, fairs and markets in early thirteenth-century Somerset. He had a crucial influence on the completion of what was to become Wells Cathedral,and on the Bishop's Palace beside it.