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Conciliarism and Heresy in Fifteenth-Century England - Collective Authority in the Age of the General Councils (Hardcover)
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Conciliarism and Heresy in Fifteenth-Century England - Collective Authority in the Age of the General Councils (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
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The general councils of the fifteenth century constituted a
remarkable political experiment, which used collective
decision-making to tackle important problems facing the church.
Such problems had hitherto received rigid top-down management from
Rome. However, at Constance and Basle, they were debated by
delegates of different ranks from across Europe and resolved
through majority voting. Fusing the history of political thought
with the study of institutional practices, this innovative study
relates the procedural innovations of the general councils and
their anti-heretical activities to wider trends in corporate
politics, intellectual culture and pastoral reform. Alexander
Russell argues that the acceptance of collective decision-making at
the councils was predicated upon the prevalence of group
participation and deliberation in small-scale corporate culture.
Conciliarism and Heresy in Fifteenth-Century England offers a
fundamental reassessment of England's relationship with the general
councils, revealing how political thought, heresy, and collective
politics were connected.
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