A Companion to the Great Western Schism 1378-1417 (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, 17) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004162771 ISBN 13: 9789004162778

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2009

Synopsis

This collection presents the broadest range of experiences faced during the Schism, center and periphery, clerical and lay, male and female, Christian and Muslim, theology, including exegesis of Scripture, diplomacy, French literature, reform, art, and finance.

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From the Back Cover:

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.

About the Author:

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).

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 9004162771
• ISBN 13: 9789004162778
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 467
• Editor: Rollo-Koster Joelle, Izbicki Thomas M.