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These diversions of amusement, designed to bolster flagging spirits came in no particular order. One writer after another volunteered and was never contested. Lights were turned off to conserve energy for heat. With the passage of hours even the heat began to flag and the urgency of the telling of tales increased. Bottles of wine were mysteriously uncovered from the baggage of one traveler. Consumption was shared with a pleasant effect on anxiety. The tales that were told follow in the form of Chapters, authors unknown and unrecorded. Natalie recorded the tales in a short-hand she had learned...

The present volume contributes to a reassessment of the phenomenon of episcopal elections from the broadest possible perspective, examining the varied combination of factors, personalities, rules and habits that played a role in the process that eventually resulted in one specific candidate becoming the new bishop, and not another. The importance of episcopal elections hardly needs stating: With the bishop emerging as one of the key figures of late antique society, his election was a defining moment for the local community, and an occasion when local, ecclesiastical, and secular tensions were...