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

by Watanabe,Morimichi

• ISBN13: 9780860788508
• ISBN10: 0860788504
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-05-28
• Publisher: Variorum

Summary

Nicholas of Cusa is known as one of the most original philosophers of the 15th century, but by training he was a canon lawyer who received his degree from the University of Padua in 1423. The essays in this book analyse his legal and political ideas against the background of medieval religious, legal and political thought and its development in the Renaissance. The first two pieces deal with the legal ideas and humanism that affected Cusanus and with some of the problems faced by 15th-century lawyers, including his friends. The central section of the book also discusses how he reacted to the religious, legal and political issues of his day; Cusanus as reformer of the Church is a theme that runs through many of the essays. The final studies look at some of Cusanus' contemporaries, with special emphasis on Gregor Heimburg, the sharpest critic of Cusanus.

Table of Contents

Sources of Articles	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
Preface	xi
Introduction	xix
Francis Oakley
PART ONE LAW AND SOCIETY
The Lawyer in an Age of Political and Religious Confusion: Some Fifteenth-Century Conciliarists	3	(12)
Humanism, Law, and Reform: Reflections on Fifteenth-Century Lawyers	15	(20)
PART TWO NICHOLAS OF CUSA
The Origins of Modern Cusanus Research in Germany and the Establishment of the Heidelberg Opera Omnia	35	(24)
Authority and Consent in Church Government: Panormitanus, Aeneas Sylvius, Cusanus	59	(22)
The Episcopal Election of 1430 in Trier and Nicholas of Cusa	81	(22)
Nicholas of Cusa, the Council of Florence and the Acceptatio of Mainz (1439)	103	(14)
The German Church shortly before the Reformation: Nicolaus Cusanus and the Veneration of the Bleeding Hosts at Wilsnack	117	(16)
Nicholas of Cusa and the Tyrolese Monasteries: Reform and Resistance	133	(22)
Nicolaus Cusanus, Monastic Reform in the Tyrol and the De Visione Dei	155	(14)
Nicholas of Cusa and the Reform of the Roman Curia	169	(18)
Nicholas of Cusa, A General Reform of the Church	187	(30)
Nicholas of Cusa and the Idea of Tolerance	217	(12)
PART THREE CUSANUS' CONTEMPORARIES
Nicholas of Cusa-Richard Fleming-Thomas Livingston	229	(12)
Humanism in the Tyrol: Aeneas Sylvius, Duke Sigismund, Gregor Heimburg	241	(26)
Gregor Heimburg and Early Humanism in Germany	267	(16)
Duke Sigismund and Gregor Heimburg	283	(18)
Imperial Reform in the Mid-Fifteenth Century: Gregor Heimburg and Martin Mair	301	(26)
Indexes	327	(1)
Works of Nicholas of Cusa Cited
Subject Index