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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      June 2012
      May 1993
      ISBN:
      9780511810657
      9780521408462
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511810657
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      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.193kg, 122 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
      Subjects:
      Area Studies, European History 1000-1450, History, European Studies, Politics and International Relations, Texts in Political Thought, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
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    Series:
    Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
    Subjects:
    Area Studies, European History 1000-1450, History, European Studies, Politics and International Relations, Texts in Political Thought, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
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    This volume makes available for the first time in English the writings about the Holy Roman Empire by Marsiglio of Padua (c.1275–1342), one of the most influential and original political thinkers of the Latin Middle Ages. Included are two major texts. The Defensor minor is a restatement and defence of the doctrines of Marsiglio's best known work, the Defensor pacis. As such it adds to our understanding of his previous thought while giving new dimensions to his theory. De translatione imperii (On the Transfer of the Empire) is a form of appendix to the Defensor pacis, in which Marsiglio's general intellectual framework is applied to an historical assessment of the legitimacy of the exercise of imperial power by the German king outside the authorisation of the pope.

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    "Cary Nederman's translation makes these remarkable works available in English for the first time, and his useful introduction relates them to the career and controversies of that most original medieval mind....In this compact and informative format, Marsiglio becomes a 'must read' for any who wish to grasp something of the intensity, variety, and far-reaching implications of medieval political thought." Gerald Christianson, Church History

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