Yes, it was Juan de Torquemada's defense of Birgitta that came to overshadow
that of Cardinal Adam Easton. And so Easton almost dropped from history. No
one has written a book on him. Yet he thoroughly deserves one.
Thaks very much for the references.
At 13.06 12/10/97 -0400, you wrote:
>The theological value of B.[irgitta of Sweden]'s revelations was debated at
the council of
>Basel. Juan de Torquemada OP, the uncle of the inquisitor, wrote a work
>(in Mansi 29 or 30) on their behalf.
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>I also have tripped across a *consilium* of the canonist Panormitanus on the
>the canonical status of Bridgetine double monasteries. See Nicolaus de
>Tudeschis, Panormitanus, Consilia, ed. L. Bologninus (Ferrara, 1475), cons.
>viii.
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>tom izbicki
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