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1 - Conciliarism and Changes of Mind

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 June 2021

Joseph Canning
Joseph Canning
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University of Cambridge
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This chapter sets forth conciliarist ideas in the church and those of its papalist opponents, from the time of the Council of Constance to that of the Council of Basel. Its focus is on three writers: Jean Gerson, Panormitanus and Nicholas of Cusa. The work of Jean Gerson summed up the early stage of conciliarism up to Constance. Panormitanus, the leading canonist of his day, and Nicholas of Cusa, theologian and polymath, exemplified the fluidity of approaches in the fifteenth century because they both exhibited changes of mind as regards conciliarism and papalism

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conciliarismpapalismConctanceBaselGersonPanormitanusNicholas of Cusa
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Conciliarism, Humanism and Law
Justifications of Authority and Power, c. 1400–c. 1520
 , pp. 8 - 60
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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