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The Council of Constance is a 15th century ecumenical council recognized by the Catholic Church, held from 1414 to 1418. The council ended the Western Schism by deposing or accepting the resignation of the remaining papal claimants and electing Pope Martin V.
The Council also condemned Jan Hus as a heretic and facilitated his execution by the civil authority. It also ruled on issues of national sovereignty, the rights of pagans, and just war in response to a conflict between the Kingdom of Poland and the Order of the Teutonic Knights. The Council is important for its relationship to ecclesial Conciliarism and Papal supremacy.
Works
[edit]- Condemnation of the Errors of Wickliff and Hus
- The Sentence given by the Council of Constance, in condemnation of the Doctrine, and Five and Forty Articles of John Wickliff
- Certain other Articles gathered out of Wickliff's Books by his Adversaries, to the Number of Forty-five, exhibited to the Council of Constance after his Death, and in the same Council condemned
Works about the Council of Constance
[edit]- Letters of John Huss Written During His Exile and Imprisonment (1410–1415, English edition 1846)
- The letters of John Hus (1408–1415, English edition 1904)
- The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe, Volume 3 (1837)
- The life and times of Master John Hus (1909) by František Lützow
- "Council of Constance," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
- "Constance, Council of," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)