Contents
Preface - John Howe
1. Introduction - Christopher M. Bellitto and
David Zachariah Flanagin
I. Gerhart Ladner's The Idea of Reform After 50 Years
2. My Debt to Gerd: His Legacy as Teacher of History and Historian of Ideas, Fifty Years after The Idea of Reform and in Light of Present Research - Lester L. Field Jr.
3. Gerhart Ladner's The Idea of Reform: Reflections on Terminology and Ideology - Louis B. Pascoe, S.J.
4. The Continuing Relevance of The Idea of Reform - Phillip H. Stump
II. Models and Case Studies of Medieval and Reformation Reform
5. "He does not say, 'I am custom'": Pope Gregory VII’s Idea of Reform - Ken A. Grant
6. Administrative Change in the Fourteenth-Century Dominican Order: A Case Study in Partial Reforms and Incomplete Theories - Michael Vargas
7. The Six Errors: Hus on Simony - C. Colt Anderson
8. Church, Bible, and Reform in the Hussite Debates at the Council of Basel, 1433 - Gerald Christianson
9. In Search of Unity: Reform and Mathematical Form in the Conciliarist Arguments of Heymeric de Campo’s Disputatio de potestate ecclesiastica (1433) - David Albertson
10. Premonstratensian Voices of Reform at the Fifteenth-Century Councils - William P. Hyland
11. "Memoriam Fecit": The Eucharist, Memory, Reform, and Regeneration in Hildegard of Bingen’s Scivias and Nicholas of Cusa’s Sermons - Ann W. Astell
12. Visions of Reform: Lay Piety as a Form of Thinking in Nicholas of Cusa - Inigo Bocken
13. Carthusians as Public Intellectuals: Cloistered Religious as Advisors to Lay Elites on the Eve of the Protestant Reformation - Dennis D. Martin
14. Black and White and Re-Read all Over: Conceptualizing Reform across the Long Sixteenth Century, 1414–1633 - William V. Hudon
Contributors
Index