Thinking politics in the vernacular
Subtitle: from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
By: Gianluca Briguglia, Thomas Ricklin (eds.).
Series: Dokimion -- v. 36; Dokimion -- Bd. 36.
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Fribourg
Language: eng; ita; fre; ger
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9783727817014
Subjects: Political science; Congresses; History; European literature; Translations; History and criticism; Medieval Literature; Medieval Philosophy
Notes: "This volume originates from the International Conference held in Munich on 28-29 November 2008 entitled Politik und Volkssprache. Das politische Denken und die Pluralität der Sprachen zwischen Mittelalter und Humanismus, from which the book draws the majority of its contents and to which it adds the essays of other scholars who became interested in the project at a later stage"--P. 12.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Articles in English, Italian, French and German.
Table of contents: title: The uses of the Arabic and Persian languages in medieval Muslim political thought : exploratory comments / Antony Black; title: The sword in her hand : Judith as Anglo-Saxon warrior and John of Salisbury's tyrant slayer / Karen Bollermann, Cary J. Nederman; title: Il diletto del linguaggio : la scelta della lingua come spazio politico in alcuni testi politici e letterari della seconda metà de Duecento / Gianluca Briguglia; title: Political propaganda and the vernacular during the reign of Philip the Fair : the rise of laicism? / Karl Ubl; title: Eine spätmittelalterliche patriotische Ermunterung des deutschen Adels in der Landessprache und ihr Publikum : das "Ritmaticum" Lupolds von Bebenburg und seine beiden Übersetzungen ins Deutsche durch Otto Baldemann und Lupold von Hornburg / Jürgen Miethke; title: Lost in translation : about the Castilian gloss on Giles of Rome's De regimine principum / Roberto Lambertini; title: Nicole Oresme et la vulgarisation de la Politique d'Aristote au XIVe siècle / Elsa Marmursztejn; title: "Hör zu, König, der du meinen Rat verlangst!" : das richtige Regiment in der alttschechischen Literatur des zweiten Hälfte des 14. Jahrhunderts / Pavlína Rychterová; title: La Monarchia di Dante e la traduzione di Ficino : un manifesto politico tra utopia e realtà / Gian Carlo Garfagnini; title: Firenze e la lezione degli antichi : i "Trattati" di Bartolomeo Cavalcanti / Lidia Lanza; title: Evolution within tradition : the vernacular works on Aristotle's Politics in sixteenth-century Italy / Marco Toste.