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The Great Ecumenical Council of Constance on the Universal Reformation, Union, and Faith of the Church. Volume I

Magnum Oecumenicum Constantiense Concilium De Universali Ecclesiae Reformatione, Unione, Et Fide. Tomus I

1700·Latin·1116 pages PDF (104.1MB) Source

The first volume of Hermann von der Hardt's monumental six-volume documentary collection on the Council of Constance (1414–1418), published at Frankfurt and Leipzig in 1700 under the patronage of Duke Rudolf August of Brunswick-Lüneburg. This volume opens with extensive prolegomena and indices, followed by Theoderich of Niem's Historia Concilii Constantiensis and related contemporary narrative sources, gathered from manuscripts in the Imperial Library at Vienna and elsewhere. The edition assembles previously unpublished manuscripts alongside earlier editions, furnishing the documentary foundation for modern study of the council that ended the Western Schism.

Author

Maurice of Prague

Maurice of Prague

Mauritius de Praga

1360–1434

Readings

Counsel on the State of the Church to be Reformed in the Council of Constance

Consilium de Ecclesiastico Statu in Concilio Constantiensi Emendando

A sermon-treatise (consilium) delivered by Maurice of Prague, Chancellor of the Church of Prague and professor of sacred theology, before the Fathers of the Council of Constance in 1417. Taking as his thema "Aperte vobis dicere" (John 16), Maurice argues for the reform of the ecclesiastical estate along the lines of the primitive Church, castigating arrogance and simony as the roots of dissension in the Church and pleading for the restoration of sound learning and probity among the clergy. Transcribed from a Viennese manuscript codex by Hermann von der Hardt.

Maurice of Prague Maurice of Prague·1417·Latin·Sermon delivered at the Council of Constance·p. 860–874