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Universities, Academics and the Great Schism (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Third Series, Series Number 12) by Robert Norman Swanson is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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The election of both Urban VI and Clement VII to the papacy in 1378, by the same body of cardinals, presented the church with an apparently insoluble constitutional difficulty. Dr Swanson examines the reaction to this situation from a hitherto unconsidered perspective: that of the universities to whom Europe turned to formulate the theories which would solve the problem. He examines the attempts by the academics to gain support for their various schemes and shows how these produced conflict at v
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- Author
- Robert Norman Swanson
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 1979
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780511865671
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Religion, Philosophy, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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