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

• Superior document: The Iberian Religious World ; 8
• VerfasserIn: Morrás, María,; Lawrance, Jeremy (translator),
• TeilnehmendeR: Lawrance, Jeremy (translator),
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: The Iberian Religious World ; 8.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (457 pages)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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.

Table of 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.