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Minnich, Nelson Hubert Joseph was born on January 15, 1942 in Cincinnati. Son of Hubert Jakob Matthäus and Alberta Mary Rosella (Pfadt) Minnich.
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The Fifth Lateran Council: Studies on Its Memberships, Diplomacy, and Proposals for Reform (1512-17 : Studies on Its Membership, Diplomacy and Proposals for Reform)
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The Fifth Lateran Council has often been dismissed as of minor signifiance, being poorly attended, and, with the benefit of hindsight, because it failed to prevent the Protestant Reformation. Nelson Minnich's research, exploiting a mass of unused archival material, had helped to transform this picture, and he argues, as did contemporaries, that it could be seen as a success, given the limitations imposed upon it by circumstances beyond its control. The first article here details who attended the council, and the following ones examine the diplomatic activity that surrounded it and the proposals put forward for reform; other studies are gathered in a separate volume. Particular themes that emerge are the emphasis popes Julius II and Leo X placed on promoting orthodoxy and reform, preserving the spiritual and temporal prerogatives of the papacy, and finally quashing the Pisan schism - at the expense of the rulers of the Empire and France. Appendices, publishing new documents, follow two of the articles.
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The Decrees of the Fifth Lateran Council (1512–17): Their Legitimacy, Origins, Contents, and Implementation (Variorum Collected Studies Series)
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The Fifth Lateran Council (1512-17), whose 500th anniversary is being commemorated, has left a legacy little studied by scholars. The council’s status as an ecumenical council was questioned by its opponents and its decrees ignored, resisted, or only slowly implemented. This new collection of articles by Nelson H. Minnich examines: what is an ecumenical council, the reasons Lateran V qualifies as such, the roles the popes played in it, the council as a theater for demonstrating papal power, what was proposed as its agenda, what decrees were issued, and to what extent they were implemented. The decrees that receive special attention are those: affirming the legitimacy of the credit organizations known as montes pietatis that charged management fees, imposing prepublication censorship on printed works, abrogating the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges (1438), reining in the privileges of mendicant friars, and closing the council while imposing a crusade tithe. These decrees were gradually implemented and Carlo Borromeo incorporated some of the Lateran reform decrees into his conciliar legislation that was taken up by other bishops. Lateran V did leave a lasting legacy and Leo X considered the council one of his great achievements. The volume includes four studies not previously published in English.
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Nelson Hubert Joseph Minnich
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Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Boston College, 1965; Master of Arts in History, Boston College, 1969; STB in Theology, Gregorian U., 1970; Doctor of Philosophy in History, Harvard University, 1977.
Career
Instructor, Loyola Academy, Wilmette, Illinois, 1966-1968; teaching fellow, assistant, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972-1976; instructor, Catholic University of America, Washington, 1977; assistant professor, Catholic University of America, Washington, 1977-1983; associate professor, Catholic University of America, Washington, 1983-1993; professor, Catholic University of America, Washington, since 1993. Chairman Department Church History, 1978-1979, 87-89, 98-.
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The Fifth Lateran Council: Studies on Its Memberships, Diplomacy, and Proposals for Reform (1512-17 : Studies on Its Membership, Diplomacy and Proposals for Reform)
(The Fifth Lateran Council has often been dismissed as of ...)
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The Decrees of the Fifth Lateran Council (1512–17): Their Legitimacy, Origins, Contents, and Implementation (Variorum Collected Studies Series)
(The Fifth Lateran Council (1512-17), whose 500th annivers...)
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The Fifth Lateran Council: Studies on Its Memberships, Diplomacy, and Proposals for Reform (1512-17 : Studies on Its Membership, Diplomacy and Proposals for Reform)
Membership
Member American Catholic History Association, Association zur Herausgabe des Corpus Catholicorum, Erasmus of Rotterdam Society, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Renaissance Society American.
