Alfonso de Cartagena's 'Memoriale virtutum (1422) : Aristotle for lay princes in medieval Spain / María Morrás and Jeremy Lawrance.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morrás, María, author.

Lawrance, Jeremy (Translator), author.

Series:

The Iberian Religious World ; 8.

The Iberian Religious World ; 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Medieval.

Aristotle. Nicomachean ethics.

Aristotle.

Cartagena, Alonso de, 1385?-1456. Memoriale virtutum.

Local Subjects:

Cartagena, Alonso de, 1385?-1456. Memoriale virtutum.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (457 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

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.

Contents:

Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. The book and its milieu

2. Courses for horses: Aristotle for lay princes

3. Memoriale's paratexts: political and cultural ideas

4. Style and Latinity

Prolegomena to the critical edition

1. Description of MSS

2. Recension

3. Editorial criteria

4. Translation

Memoriale virtutum : Text and translation

Stemma and sigla

Tabula (addita ad initium A)

Liber I

Liber II

Apparatus of minor variants

Works cited

List of figures

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Morrás, María Alfonso de Cartagena's 'Memoriale Virtutum' (1422)

ISBN:

90-04-19450-9

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004194502 DOI