Giles of Rome''s De Regimine Principum - Reading and Writing Politics At Court and University, C.1275-C.1525

Zusammenfassung This study uses an interdisciplinary approach towards the surviving manuscript copies of Giles of Rome's De regimine principum to show how people of the later Middle Ages read the text and appropriated it for both lay and clerical purposes. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Giles of Rome and De regimine principum; 2. Books, contents, uses; 3. A book of kings and knighthood; 4. From Latin into English; 5. A university textbook; 6. Improving access and removing the chaff; Conclusion

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• Authors: Charles F. Briggs, Charles F. (Georgia Southern University) Briggs, Charles Frederick Briggs, Briggs Charles F.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2008
• EAN: 9780521103442
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10344-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Palaeogra; Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Europe, HISTORY / World, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Alphabets & Writing Systems, CE period up to c 1500, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Politics and government, Archaeology by period / region, General and world history, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, Palaeography (History Of Writing), Palaeography