“The” Reforms of the Council of Constance: (1414 - 1418)

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BRILL, 1994 - 463 páginas
The first comprehensive study of the Constance reforms since 1867, this volume offers new explanations for the frequently alleged failures of the reforms, while arguing that the successes were much greater than historians have generally acknowledged.
The author analyzes the specific reforms in light of the conflicting interests of reformers; then he probes the conceptual basis of the reforms employing methodology developed by Gerhart Ladner. An appendix offers a new edition of the central source for the deliberations, the records of the Constance reform committee, using three newly identified manuscripts.
The Constance reformers gathered a rich harvest of late medieval institutional reform thought and imagery. Under the central motto of 'reform in head and members,' they put long-standing conciliar theories into practice, forging a pragmatic synthesis of hierarchy and collegiality.
 

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The ecclesiological context
3
Chapter Two The Struggle for Reform
22
The summer of 1417
31
Reform after the papal election
44
A Brief Guide to
51
The significance of the ius alternativum
84
Promotion of graduates
91
Outcome of the negotiations
96
The nature of the benefice
193
The Gallican arguments
195
Gersons position
201
Conclusion
203
Chapter Eight Ideas and Images of Reform as Change
206
Reform and history
208
Restoration as reconsecration
209
Restoration of liberty and hierarchy
211

Conclusion
100
Chapter Five Reform of the Head
104
The cardinals and the reformatio in capite Common cc 2 4 and 6
109
Reforms of the Sacred College c 4
117
The reforms of the curia c 6
119
The papal oath of office cc 2 2a and 2b
125
Transfers of prelates and alienations
127
Deposing a pope
131
Chapter Four Reform of papal provisions
134
Conclusion
137
Chapter Six Reform of the Members
138
Clerical mores
139
Dispensations and privileges of clergy
142
Unions and incorporations
146
Further English reforms exemptions
148
Reforms of the secular clergy
149
Reforms of laymen
152
Monastic reform
154
The vision of the reformatio in membris in the Decretales reformationis
159
The problem of enforcement
164
Conclusion
167
THE IDEAS AND IMAGES
171
Chapter Seven Arguments concerning provisions annates and simony
173
Arguments about effects
177
Response to papal arguments
181
Papal dominium refuted
185
Simony
188
Restoration and tradition
213
Three approaches to tradition
214
Newness
218
Amelioration
221
Reform and conciliar tradition
226
Chapter Nine Agents and Objects of Reform
232
Hierarchical aspects
239
The secularmendicant controversy revisited
245
The bonum commune and the respublica
249
The status generalis ecclesiae
252
Uses of the word status in the reform committee deliberations
256
Status and reform in the other conciliar documents
259
Corpus corporations and representation
263
Conclusion
269
Conclusion
270
Edition of the Constance Reform Committee Deliberations
273
Rationale for the New Edition
274
Relationships among the manuscripts
276
Additions to the Common Collection
284
Explanation of Edition
296
Common Collection
317
The Vatican Manuscripts V and M
372
Second Reform Committee
407
Index by Incipit
415
Abbreviations
427
Indexes
445
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Phillip H. Stump, Ph.D. (1978) in History, University of California at Los Angeles, is Associate Professor of History at Lynchburg College in Virginia. He has worked as research fellow at the Institute of Medieval Canon Law, University of California at Berkeley, and has published several articles on the Council of Constance.

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