Marsilius of Padua

The Defender of the Peace
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-521-78332-3
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 640 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 1019 g

Reihe: Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought

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 is 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 new 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brett, Annabel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Brett, Annabel
The editor and translator ANNABEL BRETT is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College. Her previous publications include Liberty, Right and Nature: Individual Rights in Later Scholastic Thought (Cambridge, 1997).