Constantine and Episcopal Banishment: Continuity and Change in the Settlement of Christian Disputes

Eric Fournier (1, 2)

1 WCUPA - West Chester University of Pennsylvania
2 CRAHAM - Centre Michel de Boüard - Centre de recherches archéologiques et historiques anciennes et médiévales

Constantine's use of clerical banishment followed precedents in respecting their immunity to physical coercion. It also deferred to bishops to adjudicate their own disputes, through councils, which lacked means to enforce their decisions. Exile was thus the optional civil enforcement of counciliar decisions and the harshest sentence Constantine was willing to use against bishops.

Domaines: Histoire

Eric Fournier. Constantine and Episcopal Banishment: Continuity and Change in the Settlement of Christian Disputes. Hillner, Julia; Enberg, Jakob; Ulrich, Jörg. Clerical Exile in Late Antiquity, Peter Lang, pp.47-65, 2016, Early Christianity in the Context of Antiquity, 17, 978-3-631-69427-5. ⟨hal-02572753⟩