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Publication year: 2009
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| Series: | Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, 17 |
| ISBN-13 (i)The ISBN (International Standard Book Number) has been changed from 10 to 13 digits on 1 January 2007: | 978 90 04 16277 8 |
| ISBN-10: | 90 04 16277 1 |
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| Cover: | Hardback |
| Number of pages: | 497 pp. |
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| List price: | € 152.00 / US$ 225.00 |
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Table of contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction: The Great Schism and the Scholarly Record, Joëlle Rollo-Koster and Thomas M. Izbicki Civil Violence and The Initiation of the Schism, Joëlle Rollo-Koster Luxury and Extravagance at the Papal Court in Avignon and the Outbreak of the Great Western Schism, Stefan Weiß Local Experiences of the Great Western Schism, Philip Daileader The Conceptualization and Imagery of the Great Schism, Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski Witness to the Schism: The Writings of Honorat Bovet, Michael Hanly Byzantium, Islam, and the Great Western Schism, Michael A. Ryan Seeking Legitimacy: Art and Manuscripts for the Popes in Avignon from 1378 to 1417, Cathleen A. Fleck The Reform Context of the Great Western Schism, Christopher M. Bellitto Extra ecclesiam salus non est—sed quae ecclesia?: Ecclesiology and Authority in the Later Middle Ages, David Zachariah Flanagin The Authority of Peter and Paul: The Use of Biblical Authority during the Great Schism, Thomas M. Izbicki The Council of Constance (1414–18) and the End of the Schism, Philip H. StumpM Conclusion: The Shadow of the Schism, Thomas M. Izbicki
Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
Readership
All those interested in the history of the Church, papal, social and cultural history, the history of religious institutions, and historico-cultural issues.
About the author(s)
Joëlle Rollo-Koster, Ph.D. (1992) in History, SUNY Binghamton, is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Rhode Island. She has published on the papacy, papal Avignon, and the Great Western Schism, including her most recent Raiding Saint Peter: Empty Sees, Violence, and the Initiation of the Great Western Schism (1378) (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2008). Thomas M. Izbicki, Ph.D. (1973) in History, Cornell University, is a Humanities Librarian at Rutgers University. He has published on the late medieval papacy, including Pope Pius II, Cardinal Juan de Torquemada OP, and Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa. His most recent book is Nicholas of Cusa, Writings on Church and Reform (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008).
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The division of the Church or Schism that took place between 1378 and 1417 had no precedent in Christianity. No conclave since the twelfth century had acted as had those in April and September 1378, electing two concurrent popes. This crisis was neither an issue of the authority claimed by the pope and the Holy Roman Emperor nor an issue of authority and liturgy. The Great Western Schism was unique because it forced upon Christianity a rethinking of the traditional medieval mental frame. It raised question of personality, authority, human fallibility, ecclesiastical jurisdiction and taxation, and in the end responsibility in holding power and authority. This collection presents the broadest range of experiences, center and periphery, clerical and lay, male and female, Christian and Muslim. Theology, including exegesis of Scripture, diplomacy, French literature, reform, art, and finance all receive attention.
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