Conciliar Diplomacy at the Council of Constance (1414-1418)

Unity and Peacemaking in a World Historical Perspective
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-53841-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 207, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 568 g

Reihe: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions

This book re-tells the story of how the Council of Constance ended the greatest Schism in Western Christendom. Using a nuanced and critical analysis of the primary sources, it reframes this drama with the Council itself as the principal actor. The Council performed its own legitimacy and its unity through a process of consensual decision-making and by conducting its own, previously little noticed, diplomacy. It succeeded where previous attempts to end the Schism had failed through its collective non-violent resistance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stump, Phillip

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Über Autor(innen)

Phillip H. Stump, emeritus professor of history at Lynchburg College in Virginia, USA, has spent his academic career in research and writing focused on medieval reform movements and on the Council of Constance (1414–1418). He has especially endeavored to make the original sources on these topics more accessible to scholars and to make history more useful to students.