Conciliar Diplomacy at the Council of Constance (1414–1418)

Download or read book Conciliar Diplomacy at the Council of Constance (1414–1418) written by Phillip Stump and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.