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    Marsilius of Padua and 'the Truth of History' by Garnett, George;

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    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 29 June 2006

    • ISBN 9780199291564
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages240 pages
    • Size 224x144x18 mm
    • Weight 426 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    This book presents a radical reinterpretation of the great medieval thinker, Marsilius of Padua. George Garnett's iconoclastic re-reading of Marsilius's work - based on a careful attention to the texts - overturns the widely accepted view of him as a secular political theorist and proponent of republicanism, and re-establishes him in his proper historical context.

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    Long description:

    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.

    [An] ambitious and thought-provoking book.

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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction
    Providential History from the Fall of Man to the Conversion of Constantitne
    Providential History from the Reign of Constantine
    Christian Providential History
    The History of the Holy Roman Empire
    Canon Law and the Conflict between Emperor and Pope
    The Historian's Use of his Canon Law Sources
    Bibliography
    Index

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