Note 269 — Front matter (continued 5)

The clergy had, of course, large troops of lay followers, and numbers of lay doctors attended the Council, but we have seen often enough the moral state of the clergy themselves in the Middle Ages. A picturesque summary of the chroniclers is given by Kitto, Pope John the Twenty-third and Master John Hus of Bohemia. See also H. Blumenthal's Die Vorgeschichte des Constanzer Concils (1897) and, for the proceedings, H. Finke's Acta Concilii Constantiensis (1896), and H. von der Hardt's Magnum Œcumenicum Constantiense Concilium (1696, etc.).