This volume commemorates the 6th centennial of the birth of Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464), a Renaissance polymath whose interests included law, politics, metaphysics, epistemology, theology, mysticism and relations between Christians and non-Christian peoples. The contributors to this volume reflect Cusanus' multiple interests; and, by doing so they commemorate three deceased luminaries of the American Cusanus Society: F. Edward Cranz, Thomas P. McTighe and Charles Trinkaus. Among the contributors are Louis Dupri, Bernard McGinn, H. Lawrence Bond and Morimichi Watanabe.

Acknowledgement, Christopher M. Bellitto & Thomas M. Izbicki Preface, Morimichi Watanabe Guide to Cusanus Works Cited Abbreviations PART I. CUSANUS IN CONTEXT 1. Lines of Convergence: Some Remarks on Spirit and Mind in the Work of Nicholas of Cusa, Wilhelm Dupre 2. Prolegomena to Nicholas of Cusa's Theory of Religious Symbols, Louis Dupre 3. Behind the Scene: The Carthusian Presence in Late Medieval Spirituality, Dennis D. Martin 4. Canonists in Crises ca. 1400-1450: Pisa, Constance, Basel, Thomas E. Morrissey PART II. CUSANUS: PREACHER, BISHOP, THEOLOGIAN 5. Nicholas of Cusa's Early Sermons on the Incarnation: an Early Renaissance Philosopher-Theologian as Preacher, Lawrence Hundersmarck & Thomas M. Izbicki 6. Proclamation of Christ in Selected Sermons from Cusanus' Brixen Period, Walter Andreas Euler 7. Meister Eckhart in Nicholas of Cusa's 1456 Sermon: Ubi est qui natus est rex Iudeorum?, Clyde Lee Miller 8. Meister Eckhart and Nicholas of Cusa on the "Where" of God, Elizabeth Brient 9. Maximum Contractum et Absolutum: The Motive for the Incarnation in Nicholas of Cusanus and his Predecessors, Bernard McGinn 10. The "Icon" and the "Iconic Text" in Nicholas of Cusa's De Visione Dei, H. Lawrence Bond 11. The Curse of Cusanus: Excommunication in Fifteenth Century Germany, Brian A. Pavlac PART III. CUSANUS' LEGACY 12. St. Nicholas Hospital at Kues as a Spiritual Legacy of Nicholas of Cusa, Morimichi Watanabe 13. Jean Gerson (1363-1429), Nicolas of Cusa (1401-1464), Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples (1450-1537): The Continuity of Ideas, Yelena Matusevich Appendices Bibliography, Thomas M. Izbicki Works by Nicholas of Cusa Cited Index of Persons Index of Places Index of Subjects