Empire and the historiography of European political thought: Marsiglio of Padua, Nicholas of cusa, and the medieval/modern divide

Journal of the History of Ideas

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-15

  Nederman, Cary J ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1353/jhi.2005.0029     Document Type: Review

References (61)

1. See Cary J. Nederman, "What is Dead and What is Living in the Scholarship of Walter Ullmann," Pensiero Politico Medievale, 2 (2004), 1-8.
2. Brian Tierney, Religion, Law, and the 'Growth of Constitutional Thought, 1150-1650 (Cambridge, 1982), 105 (emphasis mine).
3. J. H. Bums, "Introduction," The Cambridge History of Political Thought 1450-1700, ed. Burns with Mark Goldie (Cambridge, 1991), 2, 3.
4. Quentin Skinner, The Foundations of Modern Political Thought (2 vols.; Cambridge, 1978), I, ix.
5. See Brian Tierney, The Idea of Natural Rights (Atlanta, 1997);
6. Kenneth Pennington, The Prince and the Law, 1200-1600 (Berkeley, 1993);
7. and Francis Oakley, The Conciliarist Tradition: Constitutionalism in the Catholic Church 1300-1870 (Oxford, 2003).
8. See also Constantin Fasolt, The Limits of History (Chicago, 2004).
9. J.G.A. Pocock, The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition (Princeton, 1975), 50.
10. Ibid., 53.
11. Pocock, The Machiavellian Moment, 55-58.
12. See James Hankins (ed.), Renaissance Civic Humanism (Cambridge, 2000).
13. J. G. A. Pocock, Barbarism and Religion, III: The First Decline and Fall (Cambridge, 2003).
14. See Gary J. Nederman, "Constitutionalism - Medieval and Modern: Against Neo-Figgisite Orthodoxy (Again)," History of Political Thought, 17 (1996), 179-94.
15. Citing Thomas Izbicki and Cary J Nederman (eds.), Three Tracts on Empire (Bristol, 2000).
16. See Werner Goez, Translatio Imperil: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Geschichtsdenkens und der politischen Theorien im Mittelalter und in der frühen Neuzeit (Tübingen, 1958).
17. See Frank Godthardt, "Marsilius of Padua and John of Jandun at the Court of King Ludwig of Bavaria: Exile or Destination?," presented at the International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 2002.
18. See the "Introduction" to Marsiglio of Padua, Writings on the Empire, ed. Cary J. Nederman (Cambridge, 1993), xi-xiii;
19. original Latin text in Colette Jeudy and Jeannine Quillet (eds.), Marsile de Padoue: Oeuvres Mineures (Paris, 1979).
20. Marsiglio, Writings on the Empire, 66.
21. Ibid., 67.
22. See Cary J. Nederman, "From Defensor Pads to Defensor Minor. The Problem of Empire in Marsiglio of Padua," History of Political Thought, 16 (1995), 313-29.
23. Marsiglio of Padua, The Defensor of Peace, tr. Alan Gewirth, with an afterword and updated bibliography by Cary J. Nederman (New York, 2001), 84-85.
24. See Antony Black, Political Thought in Europe 1250-1550 (Cambridge, 1992), 7-13.
25. Paul Sigmund, Nicholas of Cusa and Medieval Political Thought (Cambridge, Mass., 1963), 292.
26. Morimichi Watanabe, The Political Ideas of Nicholas of Cusa with Special Reference to De Concordantia Catholica (Geneva, 1963), 144.
27. Jeannine Quillet, "Community I: Community, Counsel, and Representation," The Cambridge History of Medieval Political Thought C.350-C. 1450, ed. J. H. Burns (Cambridge, 1988), 544-45.
28. Bernard Guenée, States and Rulers in Later Medieval Europe, tr. Juliet Vale (Oxford, 1989), 17.
29. Translation of De concordantia catholica by Paul Sigmund, Nicholas of Cusa: The Catholic Concordance (Cambridge, 1991), 205-6;
30. Latin text in Nicholas of Cusa, Opera Omnia, XIV, De concordantia catholica, ed. Gerhard Kallen (Hamburg, 1959-65).
31. De concordantia catholica, tr. by Paul Sigmund, 98.
32. Ibid., 206.
33. Ibid., 237.
34. Ibid., 237-38.
35. Ibid., 239-39.
36. See Ibid., 250-67.
37. Ibid., 239-40.
38. Ibid., 239, 238.
39. De concordantia catholica, 205-6.
40. Ibid., 98.
41. See Gary J. Nederman, "Rhetoric, Reason, and Republic: Republicanisms - Ancient, Medieval, and Modern," Renaissance Civic Humanism, ed. Hankins, 261-262.
42. Nicholas of Cusa, The Catholic Concordance, 208.
43. De concordantia catholica, 235.
44. Ibid., 235-36.
45. Ibid., 236.
46. Ibid., 260.
47. Nicholas of Cusa, The Catholic Concordance, 287.
48. Ibid., 287-88
49. Ibid., 289.
50. Ibid., 290.
51. Ibid., 291-95.
52. Ibid., 295.
53. Ibid., 295-96.
54. Ibid., 287.
55. Cary J. Nederman, Worlds of Difference: European Discourses of Toleraion, c.1100-c.1550 (University Park, Penn., 2000), 89-95.
56. Gary J. Nederman, "Il Pensiero Politico Europeo tra l'Epoca Medievale e la Modemità: Il Contributo Storico e Storiografico di Alessandro Passerin d'Entrèves," Alessandro Passerin d'Entrèves pensatore europeo, ed. Sergio Noto (Bologna, 2004), 135-51.
57. See Vickie Sullivan, "Introduction," Machiavelli, Hobbes, and the Formation of a Liberal Republicanism in England (Cambridge, 2004), 1-9, 22-27.
58. Nederman, "Rhetoric, Reason, and Republic," 248-49, 268-69.
59. Janet Coleman, "Structural Realities of Power: The Theory and Practice of Monarchies and Republics in Relation to Personal and Collective Liberty," The Propagation of Power in the Medieval West, ed. Martin Gosman, Arjo Vanderjagt, and Jan Veenstra (Gronigen, 1998).
60. Mikael Hörnqvist, Machiavelli and Empire (Cambridge, 2004).
61. Earlier versions of this essay were presented at the 2004 meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in New York City and to the 2004 Texas Medieval Studies Association meeting in Dallas. Thanks are due to the participants in these sessions, including John Pocock himself, as well as to the anonymous reviewers for JHI for their suggestions.