Writings on the Empire: Defensor Minor and De Translatione Imperii. Edited by Cary J. Nederman [Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought]

Marsiglio of Padua (Cary J. Nederman, Editor)

ISBN 10: 0521402778 / ISBN 13: 9780521402774

Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993

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8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xxvii, 92pp. Very good hardcover. Ex-library. Otherwise excellent. Wildly scarce translation.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Writings on the Empire: Defensor Minor and De Translatione Imperii. Edited by Cary J. Nederman [Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought]
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521402778
• ISBN 13: 9780521402774
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Medieval Studies

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Synopsis

This volume makes available for the first time in English the writings about the Holy Roman Empire by Marsiglio of Padua, one of the most influential and original political thinkers of the Latin Middle Ages. The Defensor minor is a restatement and defense of Marsiglio's best known work, the Defensor pacis, and De translatione Imperii applies Marsiglio's general intellectual framework to the question of the exercise of imperial power.

Book Description

This volume makes available for the first time in English the writings about the Holy Roman Empire by Marsiglio of Padua, one of the most influential and original political thinkers of the Latin Middle Ages.