The world of Marsilius of Padua
- ISBN: 100781773
- Editorial: Brepols Publishers
- Fecha de la edición: 2006
- Lugar de la edición: Turnhout. Bélgica
- Colección: Disputatio
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 25 cm
- Nº Pág.: 279
- Idiomas: Inglés
Perhaps no author of the Latin Middle Ages has been the subject of so much controversy and even vitriol than Marsilius of Padua (ca. 1275-1342/43). As author of the notorious heretical tract, the Defensor Pacis, Marsilius became an infamous figure throughout the intellectual and political centres of Europe during his own lifetime. His magnum opus, a sharply pointed dissection of the damage done to earthly political life by the incursions of the papacy and a plea for conciliar ecclesiology, was repeatedly condemned during the fourteenth century and in later years. Yet the treatise continued to be disseminated and received translation into several vernacular languages. During the Reformation, Marsilius and his Defensor Pacis enjoyed another round of acclamation and denunciation, depending upon one#s confession.
Ed. Gerson Moreno-Riaño
