Medievalists.net » Nicholas of Cusa http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Conflicting expectations: Parish priests in late medieval Germany http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/02/conflicting-expectations-parish-priests-late-medieval-germany/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/02/conflicting-expectations-parish-priests-late-medieval-germany/#comments Sun, 02 Nov 2014 22:30:01 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=53844 The study investigates the expectations various groups in late medieval German society held of their parish priests and how these expectations were mediated through specific relationships.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/02/conflicting-expectations-parish-priests-late-medieval-germany/feed/ 0 Voting in the Medieval Papacy and Religious Orders http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/05/voting-in-the-medieval-papacy-and-religious-orders-2/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/05/voting-in-the-medieval-papacy-and-religious-orders-2/#comments Mon, 05 Nov 2012 17:06:00 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=36887 Medieval theologians no doubt believed that God's word was handed down from above; but they well knew that they often had to decide among rival human interpretations of it.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/05/voting-in-the-medieval-papacy-and-religious-orders-2/feed/ 0 Nicholas of Cusa’s Intellectual Relationship to Anselm of Canterbury http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/31/nicholas-of-cusas-intellectual-relationship-to-anselm-of-canterbury/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/31/nicholas-of-cusas-intellectual-relationship-to-anselm-of-canterbury/#comments Sun, 31 Jul 2011 22:38:19 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=23551 Nicholas of Cusa’s Intellectual Relationship to Anselm of Canterbury Hopkins, Jasper The Catholic University of America Press, Washington, D.C. (2006) Abstract During this sexcentenary of the birth of Nicholas of Cusa, there is an almost ineluctable temptation to super-accentuate Cusa’s modernity—to recall approvingly, for example, that the Neokantian Ernst Cassirer not only designated Cusa “the […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/31/nicholas-of-cusas-intellectual-relationship-to-anselm-of-canterbury/feed/ 0 The Church in the Light of Learned Ignorance http://www.medievalists.net/2010/09/29/the-church-in-the-light-of-learned-ignorance/ http://www.medievalists.net/2010/09/29/the-church-in-the-light-of-learned-ignorance/#comments Thu, 30 Sep 2010 03:54:30 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=10707 The Church in the Light of Learned Ignorance Izbicki, Thomas M. Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 3 (1993) Abstract The years between 1436 and 1442 were vital ones in the life and thought of Nicholas of Cusa, who entered that period as the leading conciliar theorist of his generation and emerged from it as a […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2010/09/29/the-church-in-the-light-of-learned-ignorance/feed/ 0 Nicholas Cusanus as Prince-Bishop of Brixen (1450-64) http://www.medievalists.net/2008/09/16/nicholas-cusanus-as-prince-bishop-of-brixen-1450-64/ http://www.medievalists.net/2008/09/16/nicholas-cusanus-as-prince-bishop-of-brixen-1450-64/#comments Wed, 17 Sep 2008 03:34:42 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=51 The impressive accomplishments of Nicolaus Cusanus make him one of the most important personalities of the fifteenth century.

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