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The Medieval Church · 1453
On the Peace of Faith
De Pace Fidei
Nicholas of Cusa · 1401–1464
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What it is
Written weeks after Constantinople fell: representatives of every nation and religion meet in heaven and find that beneath the variety of rites there is one faith.
Why it lasted
The most generous response any Christian made to 1453, and a striking early argument that religious difference need not mean war.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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