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This book re-tells the story of how the Council of Constance ended the greatest Schism in Western Christendom. Using a nuanced and critical analysis of the primary sources, it reframes this drama with the Council itself as the principal actor. The Council performed its own legitimacy and its unity through a process of consensual decision-making and by conducting its own, previously little noticed, diplomacy. It succeeded where previous attempts to end the Schism had failed through its collective non-violent resistance.
Price: $126.00
Pages: 294
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions
Publication Date:
23 May 2024
ISBN: 9789004538412
Format: Hardcover
“Philip H. Stump’s latest book is a major contribution to conciliar movement studies, offering a new approach to the Council of Constance’s successful efforts in bringing the Great Western Schism to an end. [...] Stump’s book is richly researched, skilfully written, and interpretatively ambitious. The author demonstrates impressive mastery of multilingual primary sources as well as both recent and established historiography. [...] Students and scholars alike will find in Stump’s study a comprehensive guide and an essential reference for future research on the Council of Constance and ecclesiastical diplomacy in the late Middle Ages.”
Karol Skrzypczak, Université d’Orléans/École Pratique des Hautes Études - Paris Sciences & Lettres, Section des Sciences religieuses. In: Church History, Vol. 94, No. 2 (June 2025), pp. 394–396.
“Ohne Zweifel gehört Stumps Studie zu den wichtigsten Publikationen der neueren Forschung zum Konstanzer Konzil. [Without a doubt, Stump’s study is one of the most important contributions to recent scholarship on the Council of Constance].”
Ansgar Frenken, Ulm University. In: The Medieval Review, 25.03.02.
Karol Skrzypczak, Université d’Orléans/École Pratique des Hautes Études - Paris Sciences & Lettres, Section des Sciences religieuses. In: Church History, Vol. 94, No. 2 (June 2025), pp. 394–396.
“Ohne Zweifel gehört Stumps Studie zu den wichtigsten Publikationen der neueren Forschung zum Konstanzer Konzil. [Without a doubt, Stump’s study is one of the most important contributions to recent scholarship on the Council of Constance].”
Ansgar Frenken, Ulm University. In: The Medieval Review, 25.03.02.
Phillip H. Stump, emeritus professor of history at Lynchburg College in Virginia, USA, has spent his academic career in research and writing focused on medieval reform movements and on the Council of Constance (1414–1418). He has especially endeavored to make the original sources on these topics more accessible to scholars and to make history more useful to students.