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基本説明
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.
Full Description
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 republican humanists of the Renaissance.
Starting with an examination of the neglected evidence for Marsilius's life, and the contemporary response to his best-known work, the Defensor Pacis, this new study argues that such an interpretation is quite wrong. It shows that Marsilius was not a republican, but an imperialist; and that far from being a secular political theorist, his great work Defensor Pacis is underpinned by a profound Christian understanding of history as a providentially ordained process.
Contents
1. Introduction ; 2. Providential History from the Fall of Man to the Conversion of Constantitne ; 3. Providential History from the Reign of Constantine ; 4. Christian Providential History ; 5. The History of the Holy Roman Empire ; 6. Canon Law and the Conflict between Emperor and Pope ; 7. The Historian's Use of his Canon Law Sources ; Bibliography ; Index
