In his The Defender of the Peace, Marsilius of Padua 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. Aimed at the student reader encountering this classic of medieval thought for the first time, this new edition is a scholarly and a pedagogic event of great importance to historians, political theorists, theologians and philosophers at all levels from second-year undergraduate upwards.
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'The lucid an readable translation, along with the informative and often insightful annotations and a comprehensive bibliography, promises to produce a new generation of students who are fascinated by this remarkably idiosyncratic political text.' Journal of Ecclesiastical History
'Brett's version of the Defensor sufficiently improves on Gewirth's that it promises to become the standard English translation for the foreseeable future.' Political Studies Review
'Brett's version of the Defensor sufficiently improves on Gewirth's that it promises to become the standard English translation for the foreseeable future.' Political Studies Review
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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 explanation of human political communities, before going on to attack what he sees as the obstacles to peaceful human coexistence. Annabel Brett's authoritative rendition of the Defensor Pacis is the first new translation in English for fifty years, and includes a 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.
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Jesus Christ, Marsilius of Padua, Saint Paul, Saint Ambrose, Saint Bernard, Codex of Isidore, John of Paris, Sentences Book, Bernard of Clair, Coder of Isidore, Giles of Rome, Martinus Polonus, Saint Gregory, Authorised Version, Hence Bernard, Hence Luke, Pontius Pilate New!
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- Political Writings by Jean-Francois Lyotard in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- On The Soul by Aristotle on page 23, and page 93
- Marsilius of Padua (Two Volumes in One) by Alan Gewirth in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- On the Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero in Back Matter
- The English Constitution (Oxford World's Classics) by Walter Bagehot in Back Matter
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