Concord and Reform Nicholas of Cusa and Legal and Political Thought in the Fifteenth Century

Contents: Acknowledgement, Thomas M. Izbicki and Gerald Christianson; Preface, Morimichi Watanabe; Introduction, Francis Oakley; Law and Society: The lawyer in an age of political and religious confusion: some 15th-century conciliarists; Humanism, law and reform: reflections on 15th-century lawyers; Nicholas of Cusa: The origins of modern Cusanus research in Germany and the establishment of the Heidelberg Opera Omnia; Authority and consent in church government: Panormitanus, Aeneas Sylvius, Cusanus; The episcopal election of 1430 in Trier and Nicholas of Cusa; Nicholas of Cusa, the Council of Florence and the Acceptation of Mainz (1439); The German Church shortly before the Reformation: Nicolaus Cusanus and the Veneration of the Bleeding Hosts at Wilsnack; Nicholas of Cusa and the Tyrolese monasteries: reform and resistance; Nicolaus Cusanus, monastic reform in the Tyrol and the De Visione Dei; Nicholas of Cusa and reform of the Roman Curia; Nicholas of Cusa, A General Reform of the Church; Nicholas of Cusa and the idea of tolerance; Cusanus’ Contemporaries: Nicholas of Cusa - Richard Fleming - Thomas Livingston; Humanism in the Tyrol: Aeneas Sylvius, Duke Sigismund, Gregor Heimburg; Gregor Heimburg and early humanism in Germany; Duke Sigismund and Gregor Heimburg; Imperial reform in the mid-15th century: Gregor Heimburg and Martin Mair; Indexes.

Biography

Morimichi Watanabe, Professor Emeritus of History and Political Science, C.W. Post Campus, Long Island University, USA