The defender of the peace
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The defender of the peace
（Cambridge texts in the history of political thought）
Cambridge University Press, 2005
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Defensor pacis
The defender of the peace : Marsilius of Padua
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Translation of: Defensor pacis
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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: all of the usual series features are provided, included chronology, notes for further reading, and up-to-date annotation aimed at the student reader encountering this classic of medieval thought for the first time. This edition of The Defender of the Peace is a scholarly and a pedagogic event of great importance, of interest to historians, political theorists, theologians and philosophers at all levels from second-year undergraduate upwards.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Principal events in Marsilius's Life
- Notes on the translation
- Notes on references
- Contents of The Defender of the Peace: Discourse I
- Discourse II
- Discourse III
- Index.
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