Ruben’s Reviews > The Council of Florence > Status Update

Lead-up to the council. The western schism is in the background; Basel and the conciliarist party attempting to persuade the Greeks in order to gain influence as the supreme ecclesial authority. I find the details of princes and factions within councils hard to follow and largely unimportant to the matter at hand. Most interesting is the Greek preparations for the council with mentions of Isidore and Mark Eugenicus