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Marsilius of Padua and 'the truth of history' /
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 proponen...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 221 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-209) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191537622 0191537624 9780191710520 0191710520 9786610870219 6610870217 1280870214 9781280870217 |