Marsilius of Padua and 'the Truth of History'
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.
| Autor: | Garnett, George |
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| EAN: | 9780199291564 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 240 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Oxford University Press |
| Schlagworte: | Marsilius von Padua |
| Größe: | 224 |
| Gewicht: | 426 g |
