These declared that no ecclesiastical benefice could be bestowed on a foreign ecclesiastic. From the Norman period manorial organisation obtained through major lay and ecclesiastic magnates. Imperial Estates could be either ecclesiastic or secular. He introduced French feudal theories and ecclesiastic and intellectual currents into Iberia. Elisa's government was characterised by unpopular measures such as those against the ecclesiastic patrimony. In Catholic canon law, "a vicar is the representative of any ecclesiastic" entity. Chancery was under the control of the Church and ecclesiastic lawyers. Furthermore, certain ecclesiastic, civic, and military positions were reserved for nobles. The monastery has published a series of collections of ecclesiastic Byzantine chants by the choir. One was an ecclesiastic and one secular. The king also strove to achieve Swedish ecclesiastic autonomy. However, these ecclesiastic pronouncements required legal sanctions of a temporal authority. It ranked among the highest ecclesiastic authorities in Italy from the mid-6th century onward. Jurisdiction would normally lie in the ecclesiastic courts. The practice is not regulated by ecclesiastic authority.