The Meroure of Wysdome Composed for the Use of James IV, King of Scots, Ad 1490, by Johannes De Irlandia: Book 6 - Couverture rigide

 
9780080370019: The Meroure of Wysdome Composed for the Use of James IV, King of Scots, Ad 1490, by Johannes De Irlandia: Book 6

Synopsis

This treatise in Scots on the wisdom and discipline necessary to a prince, in the mirrors for princes genre, is one of the earliest examples of original Scots prose A Scottish example of the mirror for princes genre popular in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, John Irelan’d The Meroure of Wyssdome, not only examines theological aspects. Ireland appends a political treatise along the lines of the popular regimen principum, instructing the king in the rudiments of governing the realm.

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À propos de l?auteur

J. Craig McDonald is emeritus Professor of English at King University, Tennessee. He has published on Older Scots texts by Robert Henryson and John Ireland and is presently editing the Meroure of Wyssdome and Volusenus's commentaries.

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