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The Conciliar Movement was modern in the sense that it was an appeal to the judgement of the many rather than of a single autocrat; but it proved too mediaeval in actual construction and working for the growing spirit of nationality that brought its prejudices and misunderstandings to the council hall. English and French, Germans and Bohemians, Italians and men from beyond the Alps, were too mutually suspicious, too assured of the righteousness of their own outlook, to be able to sacrifice their individual, or still more their national, convictions to traditional authority. The day for world-rule, as mediaeval statesmen understood the term, had passed; and the Council of Constance was a witness to its passing.

_Supplementary Dates. For Chronological Summary, see pp. 368-73._

Dante Alighieri 1265-1321
King Robert of Naples 1309-43
Joanna I of Naples 1343-82
Ladislas of Naples 1386-1414
Joanna II of Naples 1414-35
St. Catherine of Siena 1347-80
Pope Gregory XI 1371-8
Pope Urban VI 1378-89
Pope Clement VII 1378-94
Pope Martin V 1417-31

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