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In Alfonso de Cartagena’s 'Memoriale virtutum' (1422), María Morrás and Jeremy Lawrance offer a critical edition of an anthology of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, compiled and significantly altered by the major Castilian intellectual of the day, Bishop Alfonso de Cartagena, and addressed to the heir to the throne of Portugal, Crown Prince Duarte.
The work is a speculum principis, an education of a future king in the virtues suitable to a statesman. Cartagena’s choice of Aristotle was a harbinger of Renaissance ideas. The “memorial” sheds light on a society in transition, setting new ethical guidelines for the ruling class at the crossroads between medieval feudalism and Renaissance absolutism.
The work is a speculum principis, an education of a future king in the virtues suitable to a statesman. Cartagena’s choice of Aristotle was a harbinger of Renaissance ideas. The “memorial” sheds light on a society in transition, setting new ethical guidelines for the ruling class at the crossroads between medieval feudalism and Renaissance absolutism.
Price: $170.00
Pages: 448
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date:
02 June 2022
ISBN: 9789004411159
Format: Hardcover
María Morrás Ph.D. (1990, Berkeley), Professor in Humanities at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona and Special Lecturer at Oxford, works on medieval and Renaissance Spanish literature, particularly the cultural impact of humanism. She has edited Cartagena’s Ciceronian translations, Libros de Tulio (Alcalá, 1996).
Jeremy Lawrance, DPhil (1983, Oxford), Emeritus Professor of Spanish at the Universities of Manchester and Nottingham, studies the history of ideas. He has edited and translated Latin works by Cartagena (Bellaterra, 1979), Vitoria (Cambridge, 1991), and Palencia (Madrid, 1998–99).
Jeremy Lawrance, DPhil (1983, Oxford), Emeritus Professor of Spanish at the Universities of Manchester and Nottingham, studies the history of ideas. He has edited and translated Latin works by Cartagena (Bellaterra, 1979), Vitoria (Cambridge, 1991), and Palencia (Madrid, 1998–99).