Marsilius of Padua and 'the truth of history' [[electronic resource] /] / George Garnett

• Autore: Garnett George
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (234 p.)
• Disciplina: 261.5
• Soggetto topico: History - Religious aspects; Church and state; Canon law - History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [196]-209) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Marsilius of Padua and 'the truth of history
• ISBN: 1-280-87021-4; 0-19-153762-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465567903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II