Article: Conciliarism and Papalism

Conciliarism and Papalism. Edited by J. H. Burns and Thomas M. Izbicki. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 1997. Pp. xxxiii, 315. $59.95 hardcover; $22.95 paperback.)

Nearly a century after conciliarism's high-water mark at Constance, followed by a death knell with Pius II's Execrabilis in 1460, its major points of contention bubbled up in 1511. The occasion was a council held in Pisa and then in Milan by a handful of dissident cardinals backed by France's Louis XII, who was at war with Pope Julius II. In response,Julius II called the Fifth Lateran Council, which met beginning in 1512. The dueling councils and rhetoric renewed a debate about conciliar and papal authority chronicled in ...

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