The church, the councils, & reform : the legacy of the fifteenth century / edited by Gerald Christianson, Thomas M. Izbicki, and Christopher M. Bellitto.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the conciliar tradition and ecumenical dialogue / Gerald Christianson -- Historical perspectives -- Introduction / Thomas M. Izbicki -- Councils of the Catholic Reformation : a historical survey / Nelson H. Minnich -- Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini and the histories of the Council of Basel / Emily O'Brien -- The conciliar heritage and the politics of oblivion / Francis Oakley -- Sources -- Introduction / Thomas M. Izbicki -- God's divine law : the scriptural founts of conciliar theory in Jean Gerson / David Zachariah Flanagin -- Three ways to read the constance decree Haec sancta (1415) : Francis Zabarella, Jean Gerson, and the traditional papal view of general councils / Michiel Decaluwe -- The councils and the Holy Spirit : liturgical perspectives / Natacha-Ingrid Tinteroff -- From conciliar unity to mystical union : the relationship between Nicholas of Cusa's Catholic concordance and On learned ignorance / Jovino Miroy -- Challenges -- Introduction / Thomas M. Izbicki -- Pope Eugenius IV, the conciliar movement, and the primacy of Rome / Grimichi Watanabe -- Angelo da Vallombrosa and the Pisan schism / J.H. Burns -- A conciliarist's opposition to a popular Marian devotion / Jesse D. Mann -- Applications -- Introduction / Thomas M. Izbicki -- The electoral systems of Nicholas of Cusa in the Catholic concordance and beyond / Günter Hägele and Friedrich Pukelsheim -- Conciliarism at the local level : Florence's clerical corporation in the early fifteenth century / David S. Peterson -- The conciliar church / Giuseppe Alberigo -- Councils and reform : challenging misconceptions / Christopher M. Bellitto -- Afterword : reflections on a half century of conciliar studies / Brian Tierney.