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The defender of the peace (edition 2005)

by Padovast Marsilius, Annabel S. Brett (Toimetaja, TÕlkija.)

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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.… (more)
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Title:The defender of the peace
Authors:Padovast Marsilius
Other authors:Annabel S. Brett (Toimetaja, TÕlkija.)
Info:Cambridge [etc.] : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
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This is an incredibly acerbic 14th century thesis against the papacy's pretension of world dominion. Copies of this book must have been carefully hidden by generations of diligent dissidents to keep them from the flames. In addition to the author's bold stance against the papacy, this book is also noteworthy for its nearly democratic suggestions for good governance. Unfortunately the author's own reason was very much a product of its time. He accepts Biblical texts as the ultimate truth and builds his arguments accordingly, in great detail. I don't think many modern readers will be interested in reading the whole book unless they share that premise. One can only imagine what such a critical and sharp mind would have achieved a few centuries later.
  thcson | Aug 31, 2014 |
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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.

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