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  • Concord and Reform

    Nicholas of Cusa and Legal and Political Thought in the Fifteenth Century

    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    Nicholas of Cusa is known as one of the most original philosophers of the 15th century, but by training he was a canon lawyer who received his degree from the University of Padua in 1423. The essays in this book analyse his legal and political ideas against the background of medieval religious, legal and political thought and its development in the Renaissance. The first two pieces deal with the ... Read more

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  • Nicholas of Cusa - A Companion to his Life and his Times

    This work is a guide to the life, thought and activities of Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464), the great fifteenth-century philosopher, theologian, jurist, author of mystical and ecclesiastical treatises, cardinal and reformer. It is intended not only for advanced scholars, but also for beginners and those simply curious about a man who has been called 'one of the greatest Germans of the fifteenth ... Read more

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  • Frederick Barbarossa

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  • Reformation and Early Modern Europe

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  • The Social Politics of Medieval Diplomacy

    Anglo-German Relations (1066-1307)

    Series series Studies In Medieval And Early Modern Civilization
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  • The World of Medieval Monasticism

    Its History and Forms of Life

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    Series Book 263 - Cistercian Studies Series
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  • The Pope and the Professor

    Pius IX, Ignaz von Döllinger, and the Quandary of the Modern Age

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    Regimes of Coexistence in Early Modern Westphalia

    Series series Studies in Early Modern German History
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