Annabel S. Brett is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. She is the author of "Liberty, Right, and Nature" and a new translation of Marsilius of Padua's "Defender of the Peace".
Alan Gewirth is Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago.Cary J. Nederman is professor of political science at Texas A & M University.
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.