Giles of Rome's De regimine principum: Reading and Writing Politics at Court and University, c.1275–c.1525 - Couverture rigide

Briggs, Charles F.

 
9780521570534: Giles of Rome's De regimine principum: Reading and Writing Politics at Court and University, c.1275–c.1525
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0521570530 ISBN 13 : 9780521570534
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1999

Synopsis

From the time of its composition (c.1280) for Philip the Fair of France until the early sixteenth century, Giles of Rome's mirror of princes, the De regimine principum, was read by both lay and clerical readers in the original Latin and in several vernacular translations, and served as model or source for several works of princely advice. This study examines the relationship between this didactic political text and its audience by focusing on the textual and material aspects of the surviving manuscript copies, as well as on the evidence of ownership and use found in them and in documentary and literary sources. Briggs argues that lay readers used De regimine for several purposes, including as an educational treatise and military manual, whereas clerics, who often first came into contact with it at university, glossed, constructed apparatus for, and modified the text to suit their needs in their later professional lives.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

From the time of its composition (c.1280) for Philip the Fair of France until the early sixteenth century, Giles of Rome's mirror of princes, the De regimine principum, was read by both lay and clerical readers in the original Latin and in several vernacular translations, and served as model or source for several works of princely advice. This study examines the relationship between this didactic political text and its audience by focusing on the textual and material aspects of the surviving manuscript copies, as well as on the evidence of ownership and use found in them and in documentary and literary sources. Briggs argues that lay readers used De regimine for several purposes, including as an educational treatise and military manual, whereas clerics, who often first came into contact with it at university, glossed, constructed apparatus for, and modified the text to suit their needs in their later professional lives.

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"...his masterful account of the later medieval history of the text does a compelling job of clearing much of the historical obscurity away from such an important and underappreciated text." Albion

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521570530
ISBN 13 
9780521570534
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
222
Coordonnées du fabricant
Cambridge University Press
https://www.cambridge.org/

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9780521103442: Giles of Rome's DE Regimine Principum: Reading and Writing Politics at Court and University, c.1275-c.1525

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0521103444 ISBN 13 :  9780521103442
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2009
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