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Perhaps no author of the Latin Middle Ages has been the subject of so much controversy and even vitriol than Marsilius of Padua (c. 1275-1342/43). As author of the notorious heretical tract, the Defensor Pacis, Marsilius became an infamous figure throughout the intellectual and political centres of Europe during his own lifetime. His magnum opus, a sharply pointed dissection of the damage done to earthly political life by the incursions of the papacy and a plea for conciliar ecclesiology, was repeatedly condemned during the fourteenth century and in later years. Yet the treatise continued to be disseminated and received translation into several vernacular languages. During the Reformation, Marsilius and his Defensor Pacis enjoyed another round of acclamation and denunciation, depending upon one’s confession. In July 2003, a group comprising many of the world’s most renowned scholars of medieval political thought gathered for a ‘Marsilius of Padua World Congress’. The contents of the present volume represent a compendium of innovative scholarly contributions to the understanding of Marsilius, his life and times, and his lasting impact on Western thought. Included are chapters that reflect a range of recent, ground-breaking research by both senior scholars and the future leaders in the field. After a general survey of the current state of scholarship on Marsilius, the volume divides into three thematically organized sections, covering a variety of historical, textual, methodological, theological, and theoretical questions. In all of the essays, readers will discover the wealth and complexity of Marsilius’s thought as well as the startling range of approaches and methods of interpretation taken in the study of his work. The volume’s selection of authors is international in scope and represents the first interdisciplinary scholarly collaboration in the field of Marsilian studies to occur in the twenty-first century.

Marsilius, --- Mainardini, Marsiglio da, --- Mainardinus, Marsilius, --- Marsiglio Mainardino, --- Marsiglio, --- Marsilio, --- Marsilyus, --- Menandrinus, Marsilius, --- Raymundinis, Marsilius de, --- מארסיליוס, מפאדובה, --- Marsilius of Padua --- Marsilius de Padua --- Marsilius, - of Padua, - d. 1342? --- Marsilius, - of Padua, - d. 1342? - Defensor pacis. --- Marsile de Padoue --- Louis 04 (empereur germanique ; 1287-1347) --- Saint Empire romain germanique --- Philosophie médiévale --- Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679) --- Marsile de Padoue (1275?-1343?). Defensor pacis --- Biographie --- Relations extérieures --- Paputé --- 14e siècle --- Critique et interprétation

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This volume is composed of selected papers from the main strand ‘Time and Eternity’ at the seventh International Medieval Congress held in July 2000. It attests to the fact that the medieval experience of time and eternity was rich and complex, and that its investigation is open to various approaches and methods. Time and (the possibility or impossibility of) its beginning and its end were frontiers to be explored and to be understood.To make the reader more familiar with the field of study, the volume begins with Wesley Stevens’s plenary address ‘A Present Sense of Things Past: Quid est enim tempus?’, a stimulating introduction not only with regard to some of the basic problems in conceptualizing the nature of time but also to the dating of historical events and the use of calendars for that purpose.Following Stevens’s essay, the volume is organised into seven broader themes covering a variety of questions and trying to offer new insights into the medieval perception and constructions of time. They deal with the computation of time and the use of calendars; Jewish concepts of time and redemption; Christian philosophies of eternity and time; monastic and clerical conceptions; literary representations; time and art; and apocalyptic expectations. The volume’s selection of authors is international in scope and represents some of the leading current scholarship in the field. It proves that we still ‘thirst to know the power and the nature of time’ (St Augustine).

History of civilization --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Chronology --- anno 500-1499 --- Time --- Eternity --- Philosophy, Medieval --- History --- Hours (Time) --- Geodetic astronomy --- Nautical astronomy --- Horology --- Infinite --- Future life --- Time - History - To 1500 - Congresses. --- Eternity - History - To 1500 - Congresses. --- Philosophy, Medieval - Congresses. --- TEMPS --- HISTORIOGRAPHIE --- HISTOIRE --- PHILOSOPHIE --- MOYEN AGE

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This volume of essays intends to present diverse aspects of monotheistic kingship during the Middle Ages in two general-theoretical articles and a series of “case studies” on the relationship of religion and rulership. The authors discuss examples of the role of religion—based on both textual and iconic evidence—in Carolingian, Ottonian and late medieval western Europe; in Byzantium and Armenia; Georgia; Hungary; the Khazar Khanate; Poland, and Rus’. Two studies explore the issue in medieval Jewish and Islamic political thought. The editors hope that these special inquiries will engender more comparative studies on the subject.

Religion.