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.
€107.49
购买此电子书可免费获赠一本！
语言 英语 ● 格式 PDF ● ISBN 9780191537622 ● 出版者 OUP Oxford ● 发布时间 2006 ● 下载 6 时 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 2273746 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
需要具备DRM功能的电子书阅读器
来自同一作者的更多电子书 / 编辑
227,869 此类电子书
