Title

The early Church in the late Middle Ages Nicolas de Clamanges and the Ecclesia primitiva

Authors

Christopher M. Bellitto, Kean University

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2016

Abstract

High medieval Church reformers turned to the early church for exempla to counter-act what they saw in their contemporary context as a devolved institution. This effort culminated with early modern Protestant voices who frequendy saw the church's present and future in terms of a recovery of its past. Sometimes lost between the high Middle Ages and the Sixteenth Century are late medieval voices calling for reform in a similar fashion. This article attends to one of those late medieval voices, the Parisian humanist and reformer Nicolas de Clamanges (c. 1363-1437), and explores the early models for reform he drew from the fathers and classical antiquity.

Publication Title

Cristianesimo nella Storia

First Page Number

453

Last Page Number

466

Recommended Citation

Bellitto, Christopher M., "The early Church in the late Middle Ages Nicolas de Clamanges and the Ecclesia primitiva" (2016). Kean Publications. 1791.
https://digitalcommons.kean.edu/keanpublications/1791