page_title: Christianity in the 15th century
section_title: Scholasticism
hierarchical_section_title: Christianity in the 15th century / Western Christianity / Scholasticism
caption_attribution_description: English: John Hus preaching. Français&#160;: Jan Hus en chaire.
context_page_description: The 15th century is part of the High Middle Ages, the period from the coronation of Charlemagne in 800 to the close of the 15th century, which saw the fall of Constantinople, the end of the Hundred Years War, the discovery of the New World, and thereafter the Protestant Reformation. It also marked the later years of scholasticism
context_section_description: Scholastic theology continued to develop as the 13th century gave way to the fourteenth, becoming ever more complex and subtle in its distinctions and arguments.  The 14th century saw in particular the rise to dominance of the nominalist or voluntarist theologies of men like William of Ockham.  The 14th century was also a time in which movements of widely varying character worked for the reform of the institutional church, such as conciliarism, Lollardy and the Hussites.  Spiritual movements such as the Devotio Moderna also flourished.
  Notable authors include:
  Jan Hus (c.1369–1415)
  Pierre d'Ailly (1351–1420)
  Jean Gerson (1363–1429)
  Nicholas of Clemanges (1360–1440)
  Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464)
  Thomas a Kempis (1380–1471)
  Denis the Carthusian (1402–1471)
  Rudolf Agricola (1444–1485)
  Wessel Gansfort (1419–1489)
  Gabriel Biel (1425–1495)
  Johann Heynlin (1425–1496)
  Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498)
  Jan Standonck (1454–1504)
  Conrad Celtis (1459–1508)
  Johann Geiler (1445–1510)
  John Colet (1467–1519)
  Johann Reuchlin (1455–1522)
  Ulrich von Hutten (1488–1523)
  Johann von Staupitz (1460–1524)
  Jacob Wimpfeling (1450–1528)
  Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples (1455–1536)
  Desiderius Erasmus (1466–1536)
caption: Jan Hus preaching, illumination from a Czech manuscript, 1490s
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