Conciliarism and Heresy in Fifteenth-Century England Russell Hardback

Conciliarism and Heresy in Fifteenth-Century EnglandCollective Authority in the Age of the General Councils\nAuthor(s): Alexander Russell\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781107172272, 978-1107172272\nSynopsis\nThe 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 t.