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This e-book offers an intensive reinterpretation of the nice medieval philosopher, Marsilius of Padua. George Garnett's iconoclastic re-reading of Marsilius's paintings - in response to a cautious recognition to the texts - overturns the commonly accredited view of him as a mundane political theorist and proponent of republicanism, and re-establishes him in his right ancient context.
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172. ¹²⁵ Iung, Franciscain, 146. ¹²⁶ P. A. Linehan, History and the Historians of Medieval Spain (Oxford, 1993), 605. 28 Introduction catalogued in the fifth part of the book. The first target of this part is Marsilius,¹²⁷ confirming the seriousness of the threat which he was deemed to pose; but Alvarus adds nothing of substance to De planctu. He concentrates on three of the errors he had already identified: that a pope may be judged and deposed by an emperor; that any priest has the same power as the pope; and that the emperor succeeds during a papal vacancy.
Scholz, Unbekannte kirchenpolitische Streitschriften aus der Zeit Ludwigs des Bayern (1327–1354), 2 vols. (Rome, 1911–14), ii. 3–15 (selections); cf. i. 1–13, Lagarde, La Naissance, ii. 315–17; Pincin, Marsilio, 157–8. ⁹⁵ Scholz, ii. 16–28 (selections); cf. i. 13–22. There is now an edition of the entire treatise: Tractatus cuius titulus reprobatio errorum, ed. D. MacFhionnbair, Corpus scriptorum Augustinianorum, iv (Rome, 1977). ⁹⁶ Confutatio errorum quorundam magistrorum, in Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, MS.
687. ⁹¹ Continuation to Chronique de Guillaume de Nangis, ii. 15. ⁹² Raynaldus, Annales v. 533. ⁹³ Ibid. v. 353. 22 Introduction It was Discourse II which created a sensation among the book’s initial audience. Licet iuxta doctrinam is therefore a salutary corrective to those modern scholars who have seen Discourse I as the book’s principal claim to attention. This was not the view of hostile contemporaries. ⁹⁸ In view of the similarities between it and Licet iuxta doctrinam, it seems very likely that it was based on the same reports submitted to the papal curia.