Alfonso de Cartagena’s "Memoriale virtutum" (1422)

Aristotle for Lay Princes in Medieval Spain

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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In Alfonso de Cartagena’s 'Memoriale virtutum' (1422), María Morrás and Jeremy Lawrance offer a critical edition of an anthology of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, compiled and significantly altered by the major Castilian intellectual of the day, Bishop Alfonso de Cartagena, and addressed to the heir to the throne of Portugal, Crown Prince Duarte.The work is a speculum principis, an education of a future king in the virtues suitable to a statesman. Cartagena’s choice of Aristotle was a harbinger of Renaissance ideas. The “memorial” sheds light on a society in transition, setting new ethical guidelines for the ruling class at the crossroads between medieval feudalism and Renaissance absolutism.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-06-02
Mått155 x 235 x 35 mm
Vikt887 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieIberian Religious World
Antal sidor448
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004411159

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María Morrás Ph.D. (1990, Berkeley), Professor in Humanities at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona and Special Lecturer at Oxford, works on medieval and Renaissance Spanish literature, particularly the cultural impact of humanism. She has edited Cartagena’s Ciceronian translations, Libros de Tulio (Alcalá, 1996).Jeremy Lawrance, DPhil (1983, Oxford), Emeritus Professor of Spanish at the Universities of Manchester and Nottingham, studies the history of ideas. He has edited and translated Latin works by Cartagena (Bellaterra, 1979), Vitoria (Cambridge, 1991), and Palencia (Madrid, 1998–99).

PrefaceList of FiguresAbbreviationsIntroduction1 The book and its milieu2 Courses for horses: Aristotle for lay princes3 Memoriale’s paratexts: political and cultural ideas4 Style and LatinityProlegomena to the critical edition1 Description of MSS2 Recension3 Editorial criteria4 TranslationMemoriale virtutum: Text and translationStemma and siglaTabula (addita ad initium A)Liber iLiber iiApparatus of minor variantsWorks citedIndex