This book examines the response of the universities to the papal succession crisis of 1378.

Crises are never the best of times and the era of the Great Western Schism (1378-1417) easily qualifies as one of the worst of times. As a professor of canon la

Mobs are complex, often an enigma. The topic of Mobs presented here serves as a means to address not only an important historical as well as present considerati

Founded in 1365, not long after the Great Plague ravaged Europe, the University of Vienna was revitalized in 1384 by prominent theologians displaced from Paris-

This book collects twelve of the papers given at a conference held at the Library of Congress, Washington D.C., on 1-3 April 1993, in conjunction with the exhib