Marsilius of Padua and 'the Truth of History'
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- ISBN 9780199291564
- Weight: 426g
- Dimensions: 144 x 224mm
- Publication Date: 29 Jun 2006
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
