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Title Alfonso de Cartagena's 'Memoriale virtutum (1422) : Aristotle for lay princes in medieval Spain / edition, study, and translation by María Morrás, Jeremy Lawrance
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 445 pages) : color illustrations
Series The Iberian religious world ; volume 8
Iberian religious world ; v. 8.
Contents Introduction. The book and its milieu -- Courses for horses : Aristotle for lay princes -- Memoriale's paratexts : political and cultural ideas -- Style and Latinity -- Prolegomena to the critical edition. Description of MSS -- Recension -- Editorial criteria -- Translation -- Memoriale virtutum : text and translation. Stemma and sigla -- Tabula (addita ad initium A) -- Liber I -- Liber II -- Apparatus of minor variants
Summary "In Alfonso de Cartagena's 'Memoriale virtutum' (1422) María Morrás and Jeremy Lawrance offer a new edition from the manuscripts of a compilation of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics addressed by the major Castilian intellectual of the day, bishop Alfonso de Cartagena, to the heir to the throne of Portugal, crown prince Duarte. The work was a speculum principis, an education for the future king in the virtues suitable to a statesman; Cartagena's choice of Aristotle was thus a significant index of the advent of new Renaissance ideas. This edition shows how the "memorial" throws light on the ideological transformation of society those ideas would bring, setting new ethical guidelines for the ruling class at the crossroads between medieval feudalism and Renaissance absolutism"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Translated from the Latin
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 13, 2022)
Subject Aristotle. Nicomachean ethics.
SUBJECT Nicomachean ethics (Aristotle) fast
Subject Philosophy, Medieval.
Philosophy, Medieval
Form Electronic book
Author Cartagena, Alonso de, 1385?-1456. Memoriale virtutum
Cartagena, Alonso de, 1385?-1456. Memoriale virtutum. English
Morrás, María, editor.
Lawrance, Jeremy (Translator), editor
LC no. 2022006616
ISBN 9789004194502
9004194509