Description |
1 online resource (viii, 221 pages) |
Contents |
Introduction -- Providential history from the fall of man to the conversion of Constantine -- Providential history from the reign of Constantine -- Christian providential history : a dialectic of perfection and perversion -- The history of the Holy Roman Empire -- Canon law and the conflict between emperor and pope -- The historian's use of his canon law sources |
Summary |
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 republ |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-209) and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Subject |
Marsilius, of Padua, -1342? Defensor pacis.
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SUBJECT |
Marsilius -- of Padua -- d. 1342? -- Defensor pacis. blmlsh |
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Marsilius von Padua 1275-1343 gnd |
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Marsilius (de Padua) swd |
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Defensor pacis (Marsilius, of Padua) fast (OCoLC)fst01357279 |
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History -- Religious aspects.
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Church and state.
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Canon law -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
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church and state.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
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RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues.
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Church and state.
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History -- Religious aspects.
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Genre/Form |
History.
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2006004644 |
ISBN |
9780191537622 |
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0191537624 |
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9780191710520 |
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0191710520 |
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9786610870219 |
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6610870217 |
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1280870214 |
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9781280870217 |
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