Universities, Academics and the Great Schism

by R.N. Swanson

Book Overview

The election of both Urban VI and Clement VII to the papacy in 1378, by the same body of cardinals, presented the church with an apparently insoluble constitutional difficulty. Dr Swanson examines the reaction to this situation from a hitherto unconsidered perspective: that of the universities to whom Europe turned to formulate the theories which would solve the problem. He examines the attempts by the academics to gain support for their various schemes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521522269
• ISBN13: 9780521522267
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.5"