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.
| ISBN: | 9780521783323 |
| Publication date: | 24th November 2005 |
| Author: | Marsilius of Padua |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 638 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought |
| Genres: |
Political ideologies and movements |