Marsilius of Padua: The Defender of the Peace
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The Defender of the Peace of Marsilius of Padua is a massively influential text in the history of western political thought. Marsilius offers a detailed analysis and explanation of human political communities, before going on to attack what he sees as the obstacles to peaceful human coexistence - principally the contemporary papacy. Annabel Brett's authoritative rendition of the Defensor Pacis was the first new translation in English for fifty years, and a major contribution to the series of Cambridge Texts:…
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Key features
- Extensive notes and references including suggestions for further reading
- The first new English rendition for fifty years of one of the seminal works of western thought
- The editor, Annabel Brett, is among the leading scholars of medieval and renaissance political thought of her generation, with a significant international reputation
About the book
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511810664
- Series Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
- Subjects Church History,History,History of Ideas and Intellectual History,Politics and International Relations,Religion,Texts in Political Thought
- Format: Paperback
- Publication date: 09 January 2006
- ISBN: 9780521789110
- Dimensions (mm): 216 x 138 mm
- Weight: 0.85kg
- Page extent: 638 pages
- Availability: Available
- Format: Hardback
- Publication date: 09 January 2006
- ISBN: 9780521783323
- Dimensions (mm): 216 x 138 mm
- Weight: 0.957kg
- Page extent: 638 pages
- Availability: Available
- Format: Digital
- Publication date: 28 May 2018
- ISBN: 9780511810664
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