Marsiglio of Padua: 'Defensor minor' and 'De translatione imperii'

This volume makes available for the first time in English the writings about the Holy Roman Empire by Marsiglio of Padua.

Marsiglio of Padua (Author), Cary J. Nederman (Edited by)

9780521408462, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 27 May 1993

122 pages
21.6 x 14 x 0.7 cm, 0.193 kg

"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

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.

Acknowledgements
Editor's introduction
Note on texts and translations
Bibliographical note
Principal events in the life of Marsiglio of Padua
Defensor minor
De translatione Imperii
Table of biblical citations
Index of proper names
Index of subjects.

Subject Areas: History of ideas [JFCX]