%0 Book Section %T A closer look at Bishop operators publisher Birkhäuser %D 2021 %@ https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/129165 %X The purpose of this work is to provide a survey, essentially self-contained, of those results mainly concerned with the study of Bishop operators, their (local) spectral properties and spectral invariant subspaces, whenever they do exist. Finally, we will discuss Bishop-type operators, addressing some open questions in this context. %~