The editor and translator Annabel Brett is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College. Her previous publications include Liberty, Right and Nature: Individual Rights in Later Scholastic Thought (Cambridge, 1997).

'The lucid an readable translation, along with the informative and often insightful annotations and a comprehensive bibliography, promises to produce a new generation of students who are fascinated by this remarkably idiosyncratic political text.' Journal of Ecclesiastical History

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; Principal events in Marsilius's Life; Notes on the translation; Notes on references; Contents of The Defender of the Peace: Discourse I; Discourse II; Discourse III; Index.

The editor and translator Annabel Brett is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College. Her previous publications include Liberty, Right and Nature: Individual Rights in Later Scholastic Thought (Cambridge, 1997).

'The lucid an readable translation, along with the informative and often insightful annotations and a comprehensive bibliography, promises to produce a new generation of students who are fascinated by this remarkably idiosyncratic political text.' Journal of Ecclesiastical History

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; Principal events in Marsilius's Life; Notes on the translation; Notes on references; Contents of The Defender of the Peace: Discourse I; Discourse II; Discourse III; Index.

The editor and translator Annabel Brett is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College. Her previous publications include Liberty, Right and Nature: Individual Rights in Later Scholastic Thought (Cambridge, 1997).

'The lucid an readable translation, along with the informative and often insightful annotations and a comprehensive bibliography, promises to produce a new generation of students who are fascinated by this remarkably idiosyncratic political text.' Journal of Ecclesiastical History

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; Principal events in Marsilius's Life; Notes on the translation; Notes on references; Contents of The Defender of the Peace: Discourse I; Discourse II; Discourse III; Index.