Mind-Benders of Christian History
A peace treatise written in the shadow of a fallen city
Nicholas of Cusa had travelled to Constantinople on a Church embassy in the 1430s. When the city fell to the Ottomans in 1453, he responded not with a call to arms but by writing On the Peace of Faith within months — a work imagining a peaceful conference among representatives of many nations and religions.
How we know
Nicholas of Cusa 1401–1464; embassy to Constantinople 1437–38; Constantinople fell in May 1453; De pace fidei composed later that year.
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