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Marsilius of Padua: The Defender of the Peace

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Edited by
Annabel Brett
, University of Cambridge
Published 2005

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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 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:…

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  • Extensive notes and references including suggestions for further reading
  • The first new English rendition for fifty years of one of the seminal works of western thought
  • The editor, Annabel Brett, is among the leading scholars of medieval and renaissance political thought of her generation, with a significant international reputation

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