Title: Princely virtues in the Middle Ages, 1200-1500 /
Authors: Bejczy, István Pieter, 1965-; Nederman, Cary J.
Publisher: Brepols ; Marston [distributor],
Year: 2007
Subjects: Christian sociology Congresses.; Political ethics Europe History Congresses.; Ethics, Medieval Congresses.; Scholasticism Congresses.; Political science Philosophy Congresses
Contents: Introduction -- The concept of political virtue in the thirteenth century -- Rex strenuus valde litteratus: strength and wisdom as royal virtues in medieval Spain (1085-1284) -- Princely virtues or virtues for princes? William Peraldus and his De eruditione principum -- Virtue and the city: the virtues of the ruler and the citizen in the medieval reception of Aristotle's Politics -- Royal misdemeanour: princely virtues and criticism of the ruler in medieval Castile (Juan Gil de Zamora and Á́lvaro Pelayo) -- Justice, temptation, and the limits of princely virtue in Dante's conception of the monarch -- Virtues and exempla in John of Wales and Jacubus de Cessolis -- The opposite of love: royal virtue, economic prosperity, and popular discontent in fourteenth-century political thought -- Clemens princeps: Clementia as a princely virtue in Michael of Prague's De regimine principum -- Jean Gerson on virtues and princely education -- Princely virtues in De felici progressu of Michele Savonarola, court physician of the House of Este -- Piety, wisdom, and temperance in fifteenth-century Germany: a comparison of vernacular and Latin mirrors for princes.