A Companion to the Great Western Schism 1378-1417

by Rollo-Koster, Joelle; Izbicki, Thomas M.

• ISBN13: 9789004162778
• ISBN10: 9004162771
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-09-15
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

This collection presents the broadest range of experiences faced during the Schism, center and periphery, clerical and lay, male and female, Christian and Muslim, theology, including exegesis of Scripture, diplomacy, French literature, reform, art, and finance.

Author Biography

Joelle Rollo-Koster, Ph.D. (1992) in History, Suny Binghamton, is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Rhode Island. She has published on the papacy, papal Avignon, and the Great Western Schism, including her most recent Raiding Saint Peter: Empty Sees, Violence, and the Initiation of the Great Western Schism (1378) (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2008). Thomas M. Izbicki, Ph.D. (1973) in History, Cornell University, is a Humanities Librarian at Rutgers University. He has published on the late medieval papacy, including Pope Pius II, Cardinal Juan de Torquemada OP, and Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa. His most recent book is Nicholas of Cusa, Writings on Church and Reform (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Introduction: The Great Schism and the Scholarly Record	p. 1
Civil Violence and The Initiation of the Schism	p. 9
Luxury and Extravagance at the Papal Court in Avignon and the Outbreak of the Great Western Schism	p. 67
Local Experiences of the Great Western Schism	p. 89
The Conceptualization and Imagery of the Great Schism	p. 123
Witness to the Schism: The Writings of Honorat Bovet	p. 159
Byzantium, Islam, and the Great Western Schism	p. 197
Seeking Legitimacy: Art and Manuscripts for the Popes in Avignon from 1378 to 1417	p. 239
The Reform Context of the Great Western Schism	p. 303
Extra ecclesiam salus non est-sed quae ecclesia?: Ecclesiology and Authority in the Later Middle Ages	p. 333
The Authority of Peter and Paul: The Use of Biblical Authority during the Great Schism	p. 375
The Council of Constance (1414-18) and the End of the Schism	p. 395
Conclusion: The Shadow of the Schism	p. 443
Bibliography	p. 447
Notes on Contributors	p. 455
Indices	p. 459
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