Emma O’Donnell Polyakov, Ph.D. (2014), is Assistant Professor of Religious and Theological Studies at Merrimack College. Her recent publications include Remembering the Future: The Experience of Time in Jewish and Christian Liturgy (Liturgical Press, 2015).

• List of IllustrationsAbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Nicholas of Cusa and Early Modern Reform: Towards a ReassessmentSimon J.G. Burton, Joshua Hollmann, and Eric M. ParkerPART 1Reformatio Generalis: Ecclesiastical Reform1 A Difficult Pope: Eugenius iv and the Men around HimThomas M. Izbicki and Luke Bancroft2 The Reform of Space for Prayer: Ecclesia primitiva in Nicholas of Cusa and Leon Battista AlbertiIl Kim3 “Papista Insanissima”: Papacy and Reform in Nicholas of Cusa’s Reformatio Generalis (1459) and the Early Martin Luther (1517–19)Richard J. Serina, Jr.4 Nicholas of Cusa and Paolo Sarpi: Copernicanism and Conciliarism in Early Modern VeniceAlberto ClericiPART 2Coincidentia Oppositorum: Theological Reform5 Nicholas of Cusa and Martin Luther on Christ and the Coincidence of OppositesJoshua Hollmann6 Ignorantia Non Docta: John Calvin and Nicholas of Cusa’s Neglected Trinitarian LegacyGary W. Jenkins7 Nicholas of Cusa and Pantheism in Early Modern Catholic TheologyMatthew T. GaetanoPART 3Explicatio Visionis: Reform of Perspective8 The Notion of Faith in the Works of Nicholas Cusanus and Giordano BrunoLuisa Brotto9 “The Sacred Circle of All- Being”: Cusanus, Lord Brooke, and Peter SterryEric M. Parker10 Varieties of Spiritual Sense: Cusanus and John SmithDerek Michaud11 Motion, Space, and Early Modern Re- formations of the Cosmos: Nicholas of Cusa’s Anima Mundi and Henry More’s Spirit of NatureNathan R. StrunkPart 4Mathesis Universalis: Reform of Method12 Cusanus and Boethian Theology in the Early French ReformRichard J. Oosterhoff13 Nicholas Cusanus and Guillaume Postel on Learning and Docta IgnorantiaRoberta Giubilini14 The Book Metaphor Triadized: The Layman’s Bible and God’s Books in Raymond of Sabunde, Nicholas of Cusa and Jan Amos ComeniusPetr Pavlas15 “Squaring the Circle”: Cusan Metaphysics and the Pansophic Vision of Jan Amos ComeniusSimon J.G. Burton16 Cusanus and Leibniz: Symbolic Explorations of Infinity as a Ladder to GodJan MakovskýEpilogue: Ernst Cassirer and Renaissance Cultural Studies: The Figure of Nicholas of CusaMichael Edward Moore

Emma O’Donnell Polyakov, Ph.D. (2014), is Assistant Professor of Religious and Theological Studies at Merrimack College. Her recent publications include Remembering the Future: The Experience of Time in Jewish and Christian Liturgy (Liturgical Press, 2015).

• List of IllustrationsAbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Nicholas of Cusa and Early Modern Reform: Towards a ReassessmentSimon J.G. Burton, Joshua Hollmann, and Eric M. ParkerPART 1Reformatio Generalis: Ecclesiastical Reform1 A Difficult Pope: Eugenius iv and the Men around HimThomas M. Izbicki and Luke Bancroft2 The Reform of Space for Prayer: Ecclesia primitiva in Nicholas of Cusa and Leon Battista AlbertiIl Kim3 “Papista Insanissima”: Papacy and Reform in Nicholas of Cusa’s Reformatio Generalis (1459) and the Early Martin Luther (1517–19)Richard J. Serina, Jr.4 Nicholas of Cusa and Paolo Sarpi: Copernicanism and Conciliarism in Early Modern VeniceAlberto ClericiPART 2Coincidentia Oppositorum: Theological Reform5 Nicholas of Cusa and Martin Luther on Christ and the Coincidence of OppositesJoshua Hollmann6 Ignorantia Non Docta: John Calvin and Nicholas of Cusa’s Neglected Trinitarian LegacyGary W. Jenkins7 Nicholas of Cusa and Pantheism in Early Modern Catholic TheologyMatthew T. GaetanoPART 3Explicatio Visionis: Reform of Perspective8 The Notion of Faith in the Works of Nicholas Cusanus and Giordano BrunoLuisa Brotto9 “The Sacred Circle of All- Being”: Cusanus, Lord Brooke, and Peter SterryEric M. Parker10 Varieties of Spiritual Sense: Cusanus and John SmithDerek Michaud11 Motion, Space, and Early Modern Re- formations of the Cosmos: Nicholas of Cusa’s Anima Mundi and Henry More’s Spirit of NatureNathan R. StrunkPart 4Mathesis Universalis: Reform of Method12 Cusanus and Boethian Theology in the Early French ReformRichard J. Oosterhoff13 Nicholas Cusanus and Guillaume Postel on Learning and Docta IgnorantiaRoberta Giubilini14 The Book Metaphor Triadized: The Layman’s Bible and God’s Books in Raymond of Sabunde, Nicholas of Cusa and Jan Amos ComeniusPetr Pavlas15 “Squaring the Circle”: Cusan Metaphysics and the Pansophic Vision of Jan Amos ComeniusSimon J.G. Burton16 Cusanus and Leibniz: Symbolic Explorations of Infinity as a Ladder to GodJan MakovskýEpilogue: Ernst Cassirer and Renaissance Cultural Studies: The Figure of Nicholas of CusaMichael Edward Moore

Emma O’Donnell Polyakov, Ph.D. (2014), is Assistant Professor of Religious and Theological Studies at Merrimack College. Her recent publications include Remembering the Future: The Experience of Time in Jewish and Christian Liturgy (Liturgical Press, 2015).

• List of IllustrationsAbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Nicholas of Cusa and Early Modern Reform: Towards a ReassessmentSimon J.G. Burton, Joshua Hollmann, and Eric M. ParkerPART 1Reformatio Generalis: Ecclesiastical Reform1 A Difficult Pope: Eugenius iv and the Men around HimThomas M. Izbicki and Luke Bancroft2 The Reform of Space for Prayer: Ecclesia primitiva in Nicholas of Cusa and Leon Battista AlbertiIl Kim3 “Papista Insanissima”: Papacy and Reform in Nicholas of Cusa’s Reformatio Generalis (1459) and the Early Martin Luther (1517–19)Richard J. Serina, Jr.4 Nicholas of Cusa and Paolo Sarpi: Copernicanism and Conciliarism in Early Modern VeniceAlberto ClericiPART 2Coincidentia Oppositorum: Theological Reform5 Nicholas of Cusa and Martin Luther on Christ and the Coincidence of OppositesJoshua Hollmann6 Ignorantia Non Docta: John Calvin and Nicholas of Cusa’s Neglected Trinitarian LegacyGary W. Jenkins7 Nicholas of Cusa and Pantheism in Early Modern Catholic TheologyMatthew T. GaetanoPART 3Explicatio Visionis: Reform of Perspective8 The Notion of Faith in the Works of Nicholas Cusanus and Giordano BrunoLuisa Brotto9 “The Sacred Circle of All- Being”: Cusanus, Lord Brooke, and Peter SterryEric M. Parker10 Varieties of Spiritual Sense: Cusanus and John SmithDerek Michaud11 Motion, Space, and Early Modern Re- formations of the Cosmos: Nicholas of Cusa’s Anima Mundi and Henry More’s Spirit of NatureNathan R. StrunkPart 4Mathesis Universalis: Reform of Method12 Cusanus and Boethian Theology in the Early French ReformRichard J. Oosterhoff13 Nicholas Cusanus and Guillaume Postel on Learning and Docta IgnorantiaRoberta Giubilini14 The Book Metaphor Triadized: The Layman’s Bible and God’s Books in Raymond of Sabunde, Nicholas of Cusa and Jan Amos ComeniusPetr Pavlas15 “Squaring the Circle”: Cusan Metaphysics and the Pansophic Vision of Jan Amos ComeniusSimon J.G. Burton16 Cusanus and Leibniz: Symbolic Explorations of Infinity as a Ladder to GodJan MakovskýEpilogue: Ernst Cassirer and Renaissance Cultural Studies: The Figure of Nicholas of CusaMichael Edward Moore