Marsilius of Padua and "the truth of history"
- ISBN: 9780199291564
- Editorial: Oxford University Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2006
- Lugar de la edición: Oxford. Reino Unido
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 22 cm
- Nº Pág.: 221
- Idiomas: Inglés
Papel: Cartoné
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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.
