Council of Florence
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The Council of Florence was the seventeenth ecumenical council recognized by the Catholic Church, held between 1431 and 1445. It was convened in territories under the Holy Roman Empire. Italy became a
Council of Florence, from the Nuremberg Chronicle by Hartmann Schedel
Pope Martin V convoked the Council of Basel in 1431: it became the Council of Ferrara in 1438 and the Council of Florence in 1439
Sketches by Pisanello of the Byzantine delegation at the Council
A figure in Benozzo Gozzoli's 1459 Journey of the Magi is assumed to portray John VIII Palaiologos.
Council of Constance
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The Council of Constance was an ecumenical council of the Catholic Church that was held from 1414 to 1418 in the Bishopric of Constance in present-day Germany. This was the first ecumenical council co
Council of Florence
…Traversari attended the Council of Basel as legate of Pope Eugene IV. Under pressure for ecclesiastical reform, Pope Martin V sanctioned a decree of the Council of Constance (9 October 1417) obliging the papacy to summon general councils periodically. At the expiration of the first term fixed by this decree, Pope Martin V…
Jan Hus before the Council of Constance, 1883 painting by Václav Brožík
Sigismund, King of the Romans and of Hungary, his second wife, Barbara of Celje, and their daughter, Elizabeth of Luxembourg, at the Council of Constance
Bishops debating with the pope at the Council of Constance
Imperia, erected in 1993 to commemorate the Council