Marsilius of Padua: The Defender of the Peace

Informationen zum Autor 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 University Press! 1997). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Annabel Brett's authoritative rendition of the Defensor Pacis was the first new translation in English for fifty years of this classic of western political thought! and includes a chronology! notes for further reading! and up-to-date annotation aimed at the student reader encountering this major text for the first time. 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.

Product details

• Authors: Annabel Brett, Marsilius of Padua, Marsilius Of Padua
• Assisted by: Annabel Brett (Editor), Annabel S. Brett (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.11.2005
• EAN: 9780521789110
• ISBN: 978-0-521-78911-0
• No. of pages: 638
• Series: Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought; Cambridge Texts in the History
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education