Louis Maimbourg - Histoire du grand schisme d'Occident - 1680

Louis Maimbourg (1610-1686). History of the Great Western Schism. Paris, Sébastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1680, 468 pp. (8) ff. One octavo volume (150x90 mm), full calf, spine with raised bands, decorative title and volume labels in red morocco (binding of the period). Wear and rubbing on the boards and spine, loss on the upper part of the spine. Interior fresh, no foxing. Manuscript ex-libris of the writer G[ustave] Albert Aurier on the title page New edition; volume II only (volume I missing to be complete) In this volume II, the Jesuit historian Louis Maimbourg retraces the Great Western Schism, a period of crisis in the Latin Church that extends from 1406 to 1429 during which several rival popes disputed the papal legitimacy. He sets forth the origins of the division, the rivalries between the papal obediences, and the conciliatory attempts that led in particular to the Council of Constance and to the election of Martin.

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