Le schisme et la pourpre: Le cardinal Pierre d’Ailly, homme de science et de foi by Hélène Millet, Monique Maillard-Luypaert (review)
Le schisme et la pourpre: Le cardinal Pierre d’Ailly, homme de science et de foi by Hélène Millet, Monique Maillard-Luypaert (review)
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Le schisme et la pourpre: Le Cardinal Pierre d’Ailly, homme de science et de foi 作者:Hélène Millet, Monique Maillard-Luypaert(评论)
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2016
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Le schisme et la pourpre: Le cardinal Pierre d'Ailly, homme de science et de foi. By Helene Millet and Monique Maillard-Luypaert. (Paris: Les Editions du Cerf. 2015. Pp. 350. euro30,00 paperback. ISBN 978-2-204-10475-3.)Theologian, royal chaplain, university leader, bishop, and cardinal, Pierre d'Ailly (1350-1420) led a life that intersected with the major crises of his day: the Hundred Years' War; the conflict between Burgundians and Armagnacs; and, above all, the Great Schism. And yet, his rich biography has received far less attention than various aspects of his thought. The last thorough treatment of d'Ailly's life formed part of Bernard Guenee's Entre lEglise et lEtat (Paris, 1987; Chicago, 1991); for freestanding biographies, one must go back to the works of Paul Tschackert (1877) and Louis Salembier (1886, 1932). Millet and Maillard-Luypaerf s engaging biography, written with a popular audience in mind, is thus a welcome offering, bringing to bear upon its subject a number of important studies that have appeared since the 1980s. As the book's epilogue makes clear, d'Ailly has gotten something of a bad rap in the past: whether from contemporaries who became his enemies, or early-modern Protestants who associated him with the burning of John Hus, or arch-Catholics who deplored his ties to conciliarism and the Avignon papacy. Even Guenee's more balanced treatment presents d'Ailly largely as a shrewd political operator. Millet and Maillard-Luypaert go a long way toward making their subject a more sympathetic figure while not whitewashing some troubling moments in his career.The book is divided into three large sections: the first offering a biographical sketch proper, the second detailing d'Ailly's work while bishop of Cambrai from 1397 to 1411, and the third examining his scholarly output. With Millet's muchadmired expertise about the Church during the Great Schism and Maillard-Luypaert's unparalleled knowledge of the archives in Cambrai, the authors' discussions of the cardinal's ecclesiology and of his time in Cambrai are especially rich. D'Ailly's sincere dedication to church unity-and to the dignity of the papal office-comes to the fore as the authors detail his actions vis-a-vis the Schism; even his long adherence to the Avignon pope Benedict XIII is presented as showing an admirable consistency, while that pontiff, whose intransigence is often blamed for the Schism's prolongation, comes up for praise as a man of intelligence, piety, and dignity (pp. …