Marsilius of Padua and 'the Truth of History'
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
019929156X
ISBN-13
9780199291564
Publisher
Oxford University Press
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Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 29th, 2006
Print length
240 Pages
Weight
418 grams
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14.60 x 22.40 x 2.20 cms
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This book presents a radical reinterpretation of the great medieval thinker, Marsilius of Padua. George Garnett's iconoclastic re-reading of Marsilius's work - based on a careful attention to the texts - overturns the widely accepted view of him as a secular political theorist and proponent of republicanism, and re-establishes him in his proper historical context.
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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