Universities, Academics and the Great Schism

Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-521-52226-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 12, 261 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 377 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Third Series

The election of both Urban VI and Clement VII to the papacy in 1378, by the same body of cardinals, presented the church with an apparently insoluble constitutional difficulty. Dr Swanson examines the reaction to this situation from a hitherto unconsidered perspective: that of the universities to whom Europe turned to formulate the theories which would solve the problem. He examines the attempts by the academics to gain support for their various schemes and shows how these produced conflict at various levels: locally, between factions within individual universities; nationally, between rival universities, and between universities and their ecclesiastical and secular superiors; and internationally, as the universities adopted mutually exclusive attitudes and sometimnes clashed with their own popes. The concluding chapters show how the academics finally devised the conciliarist formula which led to the convocation of the Council of Pisa in 1409.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Swanson, R. N.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Maps; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The context; 2. A matter of loyalty; 3. De schismate extinguendo; 4. A breathing space; 5. De subtractione obedientie I; 6. De subtractione obedientie II; 7. De restitutione obedientie; 8. De materia concilii generalis; 9. Haec sancta synodus.; 10. Conclusion; Appendices; Index.