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Pierre D'Ailly and the Council of Constance: A Study in “Ockhamite” Theory and Practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 June 2009

Extract

The opening of the Council of Constance in November 1414 was an occasion full of promise and possibilities. The promise was more than dimmed, perhaps, by the attitude of John XXIII, who had taken three years to come to the point of summoning the council to which he had stood pledged at his election, but still it was an event at which all Christendom rejoiced.

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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1935

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page 123 note 1 See d'Ailly's account of his dispute with John XXIII, and his justification of himself in Gerson, Charlier de, Opera omnia, ed. Ellies-Dupin, , Antwerp, 1706, vol. II, cols. 951–3.Google Scholar

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page 127 note 1 In MS. only. Paris, Bibliothéque Nationale, MS. latin, no. 1571. A revised version of part III is printed in Op. Gers., II, cols. 903–16, and elsewhere as De emendations ecclesiŒ, or De reformatione ecclesiŒ.Google Scholar

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page 129 note 1 …congregatio esset concilium generale reputandum in qua diverse persone gerentes auctoritatem et vicem universarum partium totius sanitatis [sic in the edition of 1494, and in Goldast, , Monarchia, II, 603Google Scholar; ? “societatis”] ad tractandum de communi bono rite conveniunt … Dialogus, pt. I, lib. vi, cap. 85.Google Scholar

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page 130 note 4 Tertius [casus in quo habet simpliciter aliquis potestatem in papa] est si papa in aliquo crimine fuerit deprehensus de quo scandalisatur ecclesia et ipse incorrigibilem se ostenditur. Dialogus, pt. I, lib. vi, cap. 65.

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page 132 note 2 Op. Gers., II, 925–60. It is interesting to find this work, together with a few polemical tracts of the time of Philippe le Bel, some tracts by Gerson, and some by Jacobus Almainus and Johannes Major, including Almainus' commentary on Ockham, used by Edmund Richer as part of his Vindiciae doctrinae majorum scholae Parisiensis …contra defensores monarchiae universalis et dbsolutae Curiae Romanae. An edition was printed by Egmond of Cologne in 1683.Google Scholar

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page 133 note 2 Ibid., 926.

page 134 note 1 Op. Gers., II, 928.Google Scholar …potuit dici caput ecclesiae, in quantum principalis est inter ministros, a quo tamen, tanquam a principali hierarcha et architecto, aliquomodo dependet totus ministrorum ecclesiasticus ordo.

page 134 note 2 Ibid., I, 669.

page 134 note 3 Dialogus, pt. I, lib. v, cap. 21.

page 134 note 4 …ad sanctae Romanae ecclesiae cardinales, de iure naturali et divino, aliquo modo pertinet Romani pontificis electio; et dixi aliquo modo …quia …quod ad eos totaliter pertineat, hoc est de iure positivo … Op. Gers., II, 930.Google Scholar

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page 136 note 1 Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, MS. latin, 14579, ff. 101–101b.

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page 137 note 3 Ibid., 946.

page 137 note 4 Concilium generale nihil habet iuris in dignitatem pontificam, quae iuris est divini, sed in abusum dignitatis pontificiae: et idcirco, status monarchicus ecclesiae, regimine aristocratico et democratico temperatur. Op. Gers., II, 945.Google Scholar

page 137 note 5 He says that the view that the pope is subject to the council is sufficiently proven “ex actis in hoc sacro concilio”, but the schoolman gains the upper hand, and he proceeds, “Nihilominus adrobur et confirmationem concilii probare intendo iure naturali, divino, et humano, quod papa subest in multis casibus iudicio concilii generalis: et haec declarabo ex his quae scripsi in tractatu quern dudum compilavi de concilio generale…” Op. Gers., II, 956.Google Scholar

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