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

by Charles F. Briggs

• ISBN13: 9780521103442
• ISBN10: 0521103444
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-12-18
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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 uses an interdisciplinary approach toward the surviving manuscript copies, as well as documentary and literary evidence, to show how people of the later Middle Ages read Giles' text and appropriated it for their own particular purposes.

Table of Contents

Giles of Rome and De regimine principum

Books, contents, uses

A book of kings and knighthood

From Latin into English

A university textbook

Improving access and removing the chaff

Conclusion

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