The American Cusanus Society has collaborated on the publication of numerous volumes on the life and times of Nicholas of Cusa, and individual members have contributed important monographs and translations as well. The following is a partial list in reverse chronological order up to the present. 

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Published 2020-present

Mystical Theology and Platonism in the Time of Cusanus

Edited by Jason Aleksander, Sean Hannan, Joshua Hollmann, and Michael E. Moore (Brill, 2023).

 

Published 2010-2019

Nicholas of Cusa and Times of Transition

Edited by Thomas M. Izbicki, Jason Aleksander, and Donald F. Duclow (Brill, 2019).

A Companion to the Council of Basel

Edited by Michiel Decaluwe, Thomas M. Izbicki, and Gerald Christianson (Brill, 2017).

 

Nicholas of Cusa and Islam: Polemic and Dialogue in the Late Middle Ages

Edited by Ian Christopher Levy, Rita George-Tvrtković, and Donald F. Duclow (Brill, 2014).


 
 
 
 

Nicholas of Cusa and the Kairos of Modernity: Cassirer, Gadamer, Blumenberg

Michael E. Moore (Punctum Books, 2013)

 

Reassessing Reform: A Historical Investigation into Church Renewal

Ed. Christopher M. Bellitto and David Zachariah Flanagin (Catholic University of America Press, 2012).

 

Reform, Representation and Theology in Nicholas of Cusa and His Age

H. Lawrence Bond and Gerald Christianson (Ashgate, 2012).

 

Nicholas of Cusa: A Companion to His Life and His Times

Morimichi Watanabe, ed. Thomas M. Izbicki and Gerald Christianson (Ashgate, 2011).

 

Nicholas of Cusa: Sketch for a Biography

Erich Meuthen, trans. David Crowner and Gerald Christianson (Catholic University of America Press, 2010).

 

Published 2000-2009

Izbicki 2008

Nicholas of Cusa: Writings on Church and Reform

Trans. Thomas M. Izbicki (I Tatti Renaissance Library, Harvard University Press, 2008).

 

 
Christianson/Izbicki/Belitto 2008

The Church, the Councils and Reform: Lessons from the Fifteenth Century

Ed. Gerald Christianson, Thomas M. Izbicki, and Christopher M. Bellitto (Catholic University of America Press, 2008).

 
Casarella 2006

Cusanus: The Legacy of Learned Ignorance

Ed. Peter Casarella (Catholic University of America Press, 2006).

 
Izbicki/Krey/Christianson

Reject Aeneas, Accept Pius: Selected Letters of Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II)

Intro. and trans. Thomas M. Izbicki, Philip Krey, and Gerald Christianson (Catholic University of America Press, 2006).

 
Cranz/Struever 2006

Reorientations of Western Thought from Antiquity to the Renaissance

F. Edward Cranz, ed. Nancy Struever (Variorum, 2006).

 
Duclow 2006

Masters of Learned Ignorance: Eriugena, Eckhart, Cusanus

Donald Duclow (Variorum, 2006).

 
McGinn 2005

The Harvest of Mysticism in Medieval Germany

Bernard McGinn  (Crossroad, 2005).

 
Belitto/Izbicki/Christianson 2004

Introducing Nicholas of Cusa: Guide to a Renaissance Man

Ed. Christopher M. Bellitto, Thomas M. Izbicki, and Gerald Christianson (Paulist Press, 2004).

 
Miller 2002

Reading Cusanus: Metaphor and Dialectic in a Conjectural Universe

Clyde Lee Miller (Catholic University of America Press, 2003).

 
Izbicki/Belitto 2002

Nicholas of Cusa and His Age: Intellect and Spirituality

Ed. Thomas M. Izbicki and Christopher M. Bellitto (Brill, 2002).

 
Watanabe/Izbicki/Christianson 2001

Concord and Reform

Morimichi Watanabe, ed. Thomas M. Izbicki and Gerald Christianson (Variorum, 2001).

 
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Nicholas of Cusa and the Renaissance

F. Edward Cranz, ed. Thomas M. Izbicki and Gerald Christianson (Variorum, 2000).

 
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Reform and Renewal in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Ed. Christopher M. Bellitto and Thomas M. Izbicki (Brill, 2000).

 

Published 1990-1999

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Luther’s Thought on Justice, Law, and Society

F. Edward Cranz, ed. Gerald Christianson and Thomas Izbicki, with a New Introduction by Scott Hendrix (Sigler, 1998).

 
Bond 1999

Nicholas of Cusa: Selected Spiritual Writings

Trans. H. Lawrence Bond (Paulist Press, 1997).

 
Christianson/Izbicki 1996

Nicholas of Cusa on Christ and the Church

Ed. Gerald Christianson and Thomas M. Izbicki (Brill, 1996).

 
O'Malley/Izbicki/Christianson 1993

Humanity and Divinity in Renaissance and Reformation

Ed. John W. O’Malley, Thomas M. Izbicki, and Gerald Christianson (Brill, 1993).

 

Nicholas of Cusa in Search of God and Wisdom

Ed. Gerald Christianson and Thomas M. Izbicki (Brill, 1991).

 

Nicholas of Cusa on Inter-Religious Harmony

Ed. James Biechler and H. Lawrence Bond (Mellen, 1990).