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  • 1 - Conciliarism and Changes of Mind

  • Joseph Canning, University of Cambridge
  • Book:
    Conciliarism, Humanism and Law
    Published online:
    18 June 2021
    Print publication:
    01 July 2021, pp 8-60

  • Summary

    This chapter sets forth conciliarist ideas in the church and those of its papalist opponents, from the time of the Council of Constance to that of the Council of Basel. Its focus is on three writers: Jean Gerson, Panormitanus and Nicholas of Cusa. The work of Jean Gerson summed up the early stage of conciliarism up to Constance. Panormitanus, the leading canonist of his day, and Nicholas of Cusa, theologian and polymath, exemplified the fluidity of approaches in the fifteenth century because they both exhibited changes of mind as regards conciliarism and papalism