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Author Garnett, George.

Title Marsilius of Padua and 'the truth of history' / George Garnett
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006

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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
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Subject Marsilius, of Padua, -1342? Defensor pacis.
SUBJECT Marsilius -- of Padua -- d. 1342? -- Defensor pacis. blmlsh
Marsilius von Padua 1275-1343 gnd
Marsilius (de Padua) swd
Defensor pacis (Marsilius, of Padua) fast (OCoLC)fst01357279
Subject History -- Religious aspects.
Church and state.
Canon law -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
church and state.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues.
Church and state.
History -- Religious aspects.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2006004644
ISBN 9780191537622
0191537624
9780191710520
0191710520
9786610870219
6610870217
1280870214
9781280870217