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Marsilius of Padua and the Truth of History

  • Hardback
  • 240 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.5 cm

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For scholars and enthusiasts of political theory

Clarifies misconceptions about Marsilius's beliefs

You will gain a deeper understanding of history's truths

Explore the revolutionary ideas of Marsilius of Padua in this insightful study.

Marsilius of Padua is conventionally seen as a thinker ahead of his time: the first secular political theorist, and the first post-classical thinker to espouse republicanism. He is presented as a scholastic precursor of the republican humanists of the Renaissance. Starting with an examination of the neglected evidence for Marsilius's life, and the contemporary response to his best-known work, the Defensor Pacis, this new study argues that such an interpretation is quite wrong. It shows that Marsilius was not a republican, but an imperialist; and that far from being a secular political theorist, his great work Defensor Pacis is underpinned by a profound Christian understanding of history as a providentially ordained process.
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  • Title

    Marsilius of Padua and the Truth of History

  • Author

    George Garnett

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    June 2006

  • Weight

    418g

  • Page Count

    240

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.5 cm

  • ISBN

    9780199291564

  • ISBN-10

    019929156X

  • Eden Code

    4563755

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