Conciliarism And Heresy In Fifteenth Century England

Author : Alexander Russell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107172272

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Conciliarism and Heresy in Fifteenth-Century England by Alexander Russell Pdf

The general councils of the fifteenth century constituted a remarkable political experiment, which used collective decision-making to tackle important problems facing the church. Such problems had hitherto received rigid top-down management from Rome. However, at Constance and Basle, they were debated by delegates of different ranks from across Europe and resolved through majority voting. Fusing the history of political thought with the study of institutional practices, this innovative study relates the procedural innovations of the general councils and their anti-heretical activities to wider trends in corporate politics, intellectual culture and pastoral reform. Alexander Russell argues that the acceptance of collective decision-making at the councils was predicated upon the prevalence of group participation and deliberation in small-scale corporate culture. Conciliarism and Heresy in Fifteenth-Century England offers a fundamental reassessment of England's relationship with the general councils, revealing how political thought, heresy, and collective politics were connected.

Author : Gerald Christianson,Thomas M. Izbicki,Christopher M. Bellitto
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813215273

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The Church, the Councils, and Reform by Gerald Christianson,Thomas M. Izbicki,Christopher M. Bellitto Pdf

The Church, the Councils, and Reform brings together leading authorities in the field of church history to reflect on the importance of the late medieval councils. This is the first book in English to consider the lasting significance of the period from Constance to Trent (1414-1563) when several councils met to heal the Great Schism (1378) and reform the church.

Author : Ian Forrest
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191536878

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The Detection of Heresy in Late Medieval England by Ian Forrest Pdf

Heresy was the most feared crime in the medieval moral universe. It was seen as a social disease capable of poisoning the body politic and shattering the unity of the church. The study of heresy in late medieval England has, to date, focused largely on the heretics. In consequence, we know very little about how this crime was defined by the churchmen who passed authoritative judgement on it. By examining the drafting, publicizing, and implementing of new laws against heresy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, using published and unpublished judicial records, this book presents the first general study of inquisition in medieval England. In it Ian Forrest argues that because heresy was a problem simultaneously national and local, detection relied upon collaboration between rulers and the ruled. While involvement in detection brought local society into contact with the apparatus of government, uneducated laymen still had to be kept at arm's length, because judgements about heresy were deemed too subtle and important to be left to them. Detection required bishops and inquisitors to balance reported suspicions against canonical proof, and threats to public safety against the rights of the suspect and the deficiencies of human justice. At present, the character and significance of heresy in late medieval England is the subject of much debate. Ian Forrest believes that this debate has to be informed by a greater awareness of the legal and social contexts within which heresy took on its many real and imagined attributes.

Author : Benjamin M. Guyer,Lecturer in History and Philosophy Benjamin M Guyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-07
Category : England
ISBN : 9780192865724

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How the English Reformation Was Named by Benjamin M. Guyer,Lecturer in History and Philosophy Benjamin M Guyer Pdf

How the English Reformation was Named analyses the shifting semantics of 'reformation' in England between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. Originally denoting the intended aim of church councils, 'reformation' was subsequently redefined to denote violent revolt, and ultimately a series of past episodes in religious history. But despite referring to sixteenth-century religious change, the proper noun 'English Reformation' entered the historical lexicon only during the British civil wars of the 1640s. Anglican apologists coined this term to defend the Church of England against proponents of the Scottish Reformation, an event that contemporaries singled out for its violence and illegality. Using their neologism to denote select events from the mid-Tudor era, Anglicans crafted a historical narrative that enabled them to present a pristine vision of the English past, one that endeavoured to preserve amidst civil war, regicide, and political oppression. With the restoration of the monarchy and the Church of England in 1660, apologetic narrative became historiographical habit and, eventually, historical certainty.

Author : Francis Oakley
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003-11-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191567285

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The Conciliarist Tradition by Francis Oakley Pdf

In the early fifteenth century, the general council assembled at Constance and, representing the universal Church, put an end to the scandalous schism which for almost forty years had divided the Latin Church between rival lines of claimants to the papal office. It did so by claiming and exercising an authority superior to that of the pope, an authority by virtue of which it could impose constitutional limits on the exercise of his prerogatives, stand in judgement over him, and if need be, depose him for wrongdoing. In so acting the council gave historic expression to a tradition of conciliarist constitutionalism which long competed for the allegiance of Catholics worldwide with the high papalist monarchical vision that was destined to triumph in 1870 at Vatican I and to become identified with Roman Catholic orthodoxy itself. This book sets out to reconstruct the half-millennial history of that vanquished rival tradition.

Author : Jennifer N. Brown
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487504076

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Fruit of the Orchard by Jennifer N. Brown Pdf

Fruit of the Orchard sheds light on how Catherine of Siena served as a visible and widespread representative of English piety becoming a part of the devotional landscape of the period. By analyzing a variety of texts, including monastic and lay, complete and excerpted, shared and private, author Jennifer N. Brown considers how the visionary prophet and author was used to demonstrate orthodoxy, subversion, and heresy. Tracing the book tradition of Catherine of Siena, as well as investigating the circulation of manuscripts, Brown explores how the various perceptions of the Italian saint were reshaped and understood by an English readership. By examining the practice of devotional reading, she reveals how this sacred exercise changed through a period of increased literacy, the rise of the printing press, and religious turmoil.

Author : Andrew Louth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 4474 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192638151

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The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church by Andrew Louth Pdf

Uniquely authoritative and wide-ranging in its scope, The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church is the indispensable reference work on all aspects of the Christian Church. It contains over 6,500 cross-referenced A-Z entries, and offers unrivalled coverage of all aspects of this vast and often complex subject, from theology; churches and denominations; patristic scholarship; and the bible; to the church calendar and its organization; popes; archbishops; other church leaders; saints; and mystics. In this new edition, great efforts have been made to increase and strengthen coverage of non-Anglican denominations (for example non-Western European Christianity), as well as broadening the focus on Christianity and the history of churches in areas beyond Western Europe. In particular, there have been extensive additions with regards to the Christian Church in Asia, Africa, Latin America, North America, and Australasia. Significant updates have also been included on topics such as liturgy, Canon Law, recent international developments, non-Anglican missionary activity, and the increasingly important area of moral and pastoral theology, among many others. Since its first appearance in 1957, the ODCC has established itself as an essential resource for ordinands, clergy, and members of religious orders, and an invaluable tool for academics, teachers, and students of church history and theology, as well as for the general reader.

Author : Martha W. Driver,Derek Pearsall,Robert F. Yeager
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843845539

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John Gower in Manuscripts and Early Printed Books by Martha W. Driver,Derek Pearsall,Robert F. Yeager Pdf

Essays considering the relationship between Gower's texts and the physical ways in which they were first manifested.

Author : Paul Valliere
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107015746

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Conciliarism by Paul Valliere Pdf

A comprehensive introduction to conciliarism, decision-making and conflict-resolution in the history of the Christian church.

Author : Phillip Stump
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004538429

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Conciliar Diplomacy at the Council of Constance (1414–1418) by Phillip Stump Pdf

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.

Author : Joseph Canning
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108831796

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Justifications of Authority and Power by Joseph Canning Pdf

Explores how power and authority were justified in late medieval Europe, addressing arguments that people at the time found convincing.

Author : Sebastian J. Langdell
Publisher : Exeter Medieval Texts and Stud
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786941299

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Thomas Hoccleve by Sebastian J. Langdell Pdf

This book explores the work of the late-medieval English writer Thomas Hoccleve. It highlights Hoccleve's role, throughout his works, as a religious writer: an individual who engages seriously with the dynamics of heresy and ecclesiastical reform, who contributes to traditions of vernacular devotional writing, and who raises the question of how Christianity manifests on personal as well as political levels. It suggests a role for Hoccleve as a poetic mediator, capable of mediating between the increasingly militant English church and an incipient English literary tradition, and it highlights Hoccleve's role in transforming the figure of Chaucer in the first decades of the fifteenth century. It argues that the version of Chaucer presented in Hoccleve's Regiment of Princes - august, devout, and conspicuously religious - is not a pre-formed artifact, but rather a Hocclevian invention; and it indicates the ecclesiastical, political, and literary contexts that make this version of Chaucer both possible and necessary. This study also situates Hoccleve's accomplishments in a transnational poetic context - offering French and Italian precedents for Hoccleve's moralization of Chaucer, while examining the influence of contemporary French poetry on Hoccleve's work. It positions us to reconsider Hoccleve's role within English literary tradition, and to better understand the way heresy and religious reform surface in late medieval poetry; and it affords us a more nuanced context for Chaucer's positioning as a literary 'father' figure in this period.

Author : Laura Ashe,Philip Knox,Kellie Robertson,Wendy Scase
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-11
Category : Literature, Medieval
ISBN : 9781843846239

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New Medieval Literatures 22 by Laura Ashe,Philip Knox,Kellie Robertson,Wendy Scase Pdf

New Medieval Literatures is an annual of work on medieval textual cultures, aiming to engage with intellectual and cultural pluralism in the Middle Ages and now. Its scope is inclusive of work across the theoretical, archival, philological, and historicist methodologies associated with medieval literary studies, and embraces the range of European cultures, capaciously defined. Book jacket.

Author : Alister E. McGrath
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781119756583

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Reformation Thought by Alister E. McGrath Pdf

Reformation Thought Praise for previous editions: “Theologically informed, lucid, supremely accessible: no wonder McGrath’s introduction to the Reformation has staying power!” —Denis R. Janz, Loyola University “Vigorous, brisk, and highly stimulating. The reader will be thoroughly engaged from the outset, and considerably enlightened at the end.” —Dr. John Platt, Oxford University “[McGrath] is one of the best scholars and teachers of the Reformation... Teachers will rejoice in this wonderfully useful book.” —Teaching History Reformation Thought: An Introduction is a clear, engaging, and accessible introduction to the European Reformation of the sixteenth century. Written for readers with little to no knowledge of Christian theology or history, this indispensable guide surveys the ideas of the prominent thought leaders of the period, as well as its many movements, including Lutheranism, Calvinism, Anabaptism, and the Catholic and English Reformations. The text offers readers a framework to interpret the events of the Reformation in full view of the intellectual landscape and socio-political issues that fueled its development. Based on Alister McGrath’s acclaimed lecture course at Oxford University, the fully updated fifth edition incorporates the latest academic research in historical theology. Revised and expanded chapters describe the cultural backdrop of the Reformation, discuss the Reformation’s background in late Renaissance humanism and medieval scholasticism, and distill the findings of recent scholarship, including work on the history of the Christian doctrine of justification. A wealth of pedagogical features—including illustrations, updated bibliographies, a glossary, a chronology of political and historical ideas, and several appendices—supplement McGrath’s clear explanations. Written by a world-renowned theologian, Reformation Thought: An Introduction, Fifth Edition upholds its reputation as the ideal resource for university and seminary courses on Reformation thought and the widespread change it inspired in Christian belief and practice.

Author : C. M. D. Crowder
Publisher : London : Edward Arnold
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015014437167

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Unity, Heresy and Reform, 1378-1460 by C. M. D. Crowder Pdf