{"product_id":"marsilius-of-padua-and-the-truth-of-history","title":"Marsilius of Padua and 'The Truth of History'","description":"\u003cp\u003eMarsilius 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\n\u003cbr\u003ethat 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\n\u003cbr\u003ea profound Christian understanding of history as a providentially ordained process.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44082431754478,"sku":"9780199291564","price":258.41,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780199291564.jpg?v=1706232296","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/marsilius-of-padua-and-the-truth-of-history","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}