"Almost on the eve of the sixteenth-century Reformation, the long-running debate over the respective authority of popes and councils in the Catholic Church was vigorously resumed. In this collection the editors bring together the first English translation of four major contributions to that debate. In these texts, complex arguments derived from Scripture, theology, and canon law are deployed. The issues that emerge, however, prove to hav ..."
" The Church, the Councils, and Reform brings together leading authorities in the field of church history to reflect on the importance of the late medieval councils. This is the first book in English to consider the lasting significance of the period from Constance to Trent (1414-1563) when several councils met to heal the Great Schism (1378) and reform the church. The authors look afresh at this era and consider how its legacy of reform ..."
" Nicholas of Cusa (1401 1464), widely considered the most important original philosopher of the Renaissance, was born in Kues on the Moselle River. A polymath who studied canon law and became a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, he wrote principally on speculative theology, philosophy, and church politics. As a political thinker he is best known for "De concordantia catholica," which presented a blueprint for peace in an age of eccl ..."
"Almost on the eve of the sixteenth-century Reformation, the long-running debate over the respective authority of popes and councils in the Catholic Church was vigorously resumed. In this collection the editors bring together the first English translation of four major contributions to that debate. In these texts, complex arguments derived from Scripture, theology, and canon law are deployed. The issues that emerge, however, prove to hav ..."
Protector of the faith(1st Edition) Cardinal Johannes de Turrecremata and the defense of the institutional church by ThomasM. Izbicki Hardcover, 206 Pages, Published 1981 by Catholic University Of America Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8132-0558-8, ISBN: 0-8132-0558-1
Concord and Reform(Illustrated) Nicholas of Cusa and Legal and Political Thought in the Fifteenth Century (Variorum Collected Studies Series) by Morimichi Watanabe, ThomasM. Izbicki, Gerald Christianson Hardcover, 362 Pages, Published 2001 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-86078-850-8, ISBN: 0-86078-850-4
"Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464) was one of the most illustrious figures of the fifteenth century--a man whose imagination spanned the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance to point the way to modernity. Theologian, philosopher, canon lawyer, reformer, church statesman, and cardinal, Cusanus' ideas of learned ignorance and the coincidence of opposites still attract attention today across a wide variety of disciplines. However, there is no ..."
Refashioning Medieval and Early Modern Dress A Tribute to Robin Netherton (Medieval and Renaissance Clothing and Textiles) by Maren Clegg Hyer Hardcover, 311 Pages, Published 2019 by Boydell Press ISBN-13: 978-1-78327-474-1, ISBN: 1-78327-474-3
"Also studied in this collection are the writings of Spanish theologians about the indigenous populations of the New World and the use of the name of Nicholas of Cusa by Elizabethan and Jacobean writers, both Catholic and Protestant, in ..."
"Thomas Izbicki presents a new examination of the relationship between the adoration of the sacrament and canon law from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries."