The Reforms of the Council of Constance (1414-1418)

Erscheinungsjahr 1993
ISBN: 978-90-04-09930-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Latin, Band 53, 468 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 969 g

Reihe: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions

The first comprehensive study of the Constance reforms since 1867, this volume offers new explanations for the frequently alleged failures of the reforms, while arguing that the successes were much greater than historians have generally acknowledged.
The author analyses the specific reforms in light of the conflicting interests of reformers; then he probes the conceptual basis of the reforms employing methodology developed by Gerhart Ladner. An appendix offers a new edition of the central source for the deliberations — the records of the Constance reform committee — using three newly identified manuscripts.
The Constance reformers gathered a rich harvest of late medieval institutional reform thought and imagery. Under the central motto of "reform in head and members," they put long-standing conciliar theories into practice, forging a pragmatic synthesis of hierarchy and collegiality.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stump, Phillip

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Phillip H. Stump, Ph.D. (1978) in History, University of California at Los Angeles, is Associate Professor of History at Lynchburg College in Virginia. He has worked as research fellow at the Institute of Medieval Canon Law, University of California at Berkeley, and has published several articles on the Council of Constance.