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On the Government of Rulers: De Regimine Principum
Ptolemy Of Lucca
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Hardback. Translator(s): Blythe, James M. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JPHC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 631.
Ptolemy, considered a proto-Humanist by some, combined the principles of Northern Italian republicanism with Aristotelian theory in his De Regimine Principum, a book that influenced much of the political thought of the later Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the early modern period. He was the first to attack kingship as despotism and to draw parallels between ancient Greek models of mixed constitution and the Roman Republic, biblical rule, the Church, and medieval government. In addition to his translation of this important and radical medieval political treatise, written around 1300, James M. Blythe includes a sixty-page ... Read more
Ptolemy, considered a proto-Humanist by some, combined the principles of Northern Italian republicanism with Aristotelian theory in his De Regimine Principum, a book that influenced much of the political thought of the later Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the early modern period. He was the first to attack kingship as despotism and to draw parallels between ancient Greek models of mixed constitution and the Roman Republic, biblical rule, the Church, and medieval government. In addition to his translation of this important and radical medieval political treatise, written around 1300, James M. Blythe includes a sixty-page ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Series
The Middle Ages Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812233704
SKU
V9780812233704
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About Ptolemy Of Lucca
Translated by James M. Blythe. Ptolemy of Lucca, with portions attributed to Thomas Aquinas
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