Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction: Inventing Modernity 1
5. Part 1 Heresy and Reform
6. Pierre d’Ailly 17
7. History, Heresy, and Hell 33
8. History and Legitimacy in the Dominican Responses to John of Pouilly 53
9. Part 2 Transforming Ideas and Traditions
10. Putting on the Toga 73
11. Nicholas Cusanus and Lorenzo Valla as Virtual Colleagues 95
12. Defensor Pacis Transformed 115
13. Part 3. Cusa and Philosophy Origins and Applications: Origins and Applications
14. Cusanus’s Philosophical Testament 137
15. Peter Abelard, Anselm of Havelberg, and Nicholas of Cusa 155
16. Nicholas of Cusa, the Papacy, and World Order 171
17. Part 4. The Great Schism and the Conciliar Option
18. The Great Western Schism, Legitimacy, and Tyrannicide 193
19. Dispensing Against the Apostle 213
20. Henri Louis Charles Maret (1805–1884) 231
21. Part 5. Appendices
22. Thomas M. Izbicki 255
23. Afterword 261
24. A Bibliography of the Writings of Thomas M. Izbicki 265
25. Notes on Contributors 273
26. Index of Names and Places 275