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Autore |
Garnett George |
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Titolo |
Marsilius of Padua and 'the truth of history' [[electronic resource] /] / George Garnett |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-87021-4 |
0-19-153762-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (234 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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History - Religious aspects |
Church and state |
Canon law - History |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [196]-209) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- Providential history from the fall of man to the conversion of Constantine -- Providential history from the reign of Constantine -- Christian providential history : a dialectic of perfection and perversion -- The history of the Holy Roman Empire -- Canon law and the conflict between emperor and pope -- The historian's use of his canon law sources. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book presents a radical reinterpretation of the great medieval thinker, Marsilius of Padua. George Garnett's iconoclastic re-reading of Marsilius's work - based on a careful attention to the texts - overturns the widely accepted view of him as a secular political theorist and proponent of republicanism, and re-establishes him in his proper historical context. - ;Marsilius of Padua is conventionally seen as a thinker ahead of his time: the first secular political theorist, and the first post-classical thinker to espouse republicanism. He is presented as a scholastic precursor of the republ |
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