Liber de pace et tranquilitate reipublice cum aliis quibusdam [titel 18de eeuw]

Three texts have been brought together in this codex. The first (f. 1r-84v) is the Defensor pacis of Marsilius of Padua (d. 1343). In this significant work, written during the continuous conflicts between pope and emperor, Marsilius criticized the papal claims on temporal power and universal aspirations. Furthermore, and even more radical, was his view that all church authority was held by the peo…