De pace fidei
- Language:
- Latin
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Clean text
- Extent:
- ~14,700 words · 70 passages
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What it is about
On the Peace of Faith (1453): written weeks after the fall of Constantinople.
Context and history
While Europe called for crusade, Cusanus imagines a council in heaven where the representatives of every religion discover they are arguing about rites and not about faith. 'One religion in a variety of rites' is the formula. It is among the bravest texts of the fifteenth century. Text in LATIN: Cusanus's original, and the version to cite.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
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