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![Oratio lamentabilis ... Iohannes Savageti Constantiensis et Basiliensis ... super turbatione dicte ecclesie Constantiensis ... una cum tractatu per eum, edito sex dubiis iuris clauso ... Per que evidens iustitia ... Ludovici de Freiberg ... confirmati episcopi ac iniustitia Ottonis de Sunnenberg ... declaratur et ostenditur : ; [Add.]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.sourcelibrary.org%2Farchived%2F69b6313b1c1c21a373805eb3%2F1.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Oratio lamentabilis ... Iohannes Savageti Constantiensis et Basiliensis ... super turbatione dicte ecclesie Constantiensis ... una cum tractatu per eum, edito sex dubiis iuris clauso ... Per que evidens iustitia ... Ludovici de Freiberg ... confirmati episcopi ac iniustitia Ottonis de Sunnenberg ... declaratur et ostenditur : ; [Add.]
This legal manifesto captures a bitter power struggle for the soul of the Constance cathedral. Johannes Savageti defends absolute papal supremacy while dismantling the legitimacy of a rival bishop backed by secular elites. Readers will witness the collision between canon law and imperial defiance in a volatile late-medieval Europe.