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Giles of Rome's De regimine principum: Reading and Writing Politics at Court and University, c.1275–c.1525: 5 (Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology, Series Number 5) - Hardcover

Charles F. Briggs

 
9780521570534: Giles of Rome's De regimine principum: Reading and Writing Politics at Court and University, c.1275–c.1525: 5 (Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology, Series Number 5)

Synopsis

An interdisciplinary study of the reception and use of De regimine principum, a major medieval text.

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Review

"...his masterful account of the later medieval history of the text does a compelling job of clearing much of the historical obscurity away from such an important and underappreciated text." Albion

"Its rich detail and different lines of inquiry allow the book to achieve an optimum of both information and analysis." Speculum

Book Description

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.

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