Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface - Morimichi Watanabe -- Introduction - Peter J. Casarella -- Abbreviations -- 1. Nicholas of Cusa's Sermon on the Pater Noster - Nancy Hudson and Frank Tobin -- 2. Seeing and Not Seeing: Nicholas of Cusa's De visione Dei in the History of Western Mysticism - Bernard McGinn -- 3. Nicholas of Cusa's Intellectual Relationship to Anselm of Canterbury - Jasper Hopkins -- 4. The Question of Pantheism From Eckhart to Cusanus - Louis Dupré -- 5. The Image of the Living God: Some Remarks on the Meaning of Perfection and World Formation - Wilhelm Dupré -- 6. On The Power and Poverty of Perspective: Cusanus and Alberti - Karsten Harries -- 7. An Italian Painting From the Late Fifteenth Century and the Cribratio alkorani Of Nicholas Of Cusa - Walter Andreas Euler -- 8. A Brief Report on the Painting of Three Haloed Figures - Il Kim -- 9. The Concept of Infallibility in Nicholas of Cusa - Thomas Prügl -- 10. Empire Meets Nation: Imperial Authority and National Government in Renaissance Political Thought - Cary J. Nederman -- 11. Medieval and Modern Constitutionalism: Nicholas of Cusa and John Locke - Paul E. Sigmund -- 12. How Can the Infinite Be the Measure of the Finite? Three Mathematical Metaphors from De docta ignorantia - Elizabeth Brient -- 13. "The Earth Is A Noble Star" : The Arguments for the Relativity of Motion in the Cosmology of Nicolaus Cusanus and Their Transformation in Einstein's Theory of Relativity - Regine Kather -- Suggested Reading -- List of Contributors -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.