Proceedings of a conference held in Oct. 2008 at Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. I. Gerhart Ladner's The idea of reform after 50 years. My debt to Gerd: his legacy as teacher of history and historian of ideas, fifty years after The idea of reform and in light of present research / Lester L. Field Jr. -- Gerhart Ladner's The idea of reform: reflections on terminology and ideology / Louis B. Pascoe -- The continuing relevance of The idea of reform / Phillip H. Stump -- Models and case studies of medieval and Reformation reform. "He does not say, 'I am custom'": Pope Gregory VII's idea of reform / Ken A. Grant -- Administrative change in the fourteenth-century Dominican order: a case study in partial reforms and incomplete theories / Michael Vargas -- The six errors: Hus on simony / C. Colt Anderson -- Church, Bible, and reform in the Hussite debates at the Council of Basel, 1433 / Gerald Christianson -- In search of unity: reform and mathematical form in the conciliarist arguments of Heymeric de Campo's Disputatio de potestate ecclesiastica (1433) / David Albertson -- Premonstratensian voices of reform at the fifteenth-century councils / William P. Hyland -- "Memoriam fecit": the Eucharist, memory, reform, and regeneration in Hildegard of Bingen's Scivias and Nicholas of Cusa's sermons / Ann W. Astell -- Visions of reform: lay piety as a form of thinking in Nicholas of Cusa / Inigo Bocken -- Carthusians as public intellectuals: cloistered religious as advisors to lay elites on the eve of the Protestant Reformation / Dennis D. Martin -- Black and white and re-read all over: conceptualizing reform across the long sixteenth century, 1414-1633 / WIlliam V. Hudon.

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