Alfonso de Cartagena’s "Memoriale virtutum" (1422)
Alfonso de Cartagena’s

Author: María Morrás

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-06-08

Total Pages: 457

ISBN-13: 9004194509

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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.

Alfonso de Cartagena's 'Memoriale Virtutum' (1422)
Alfonso de Cartagena's 'Memoriale Virtutum' (1422)

Author: María Morrás

Publisher: Iberian Religious World

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 9789004411159

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"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"--

Moderation and the Mean in the Literature of Spain's Golden Age
Moderation and the Mean in the Literature of Spain's Golden Age

Author: Richard Rabone

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2023-05-19

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0192677233

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This book presents the first sustained analysis of the reception of the Aristotelian golden mean and related ideas of moderation in the literature and thought of early modern Spain (1500-1700). It explores the Golden-Age understanding of Aristotle's doctrine as a prolegomenon to literary study, and its allegorical reformulation in the myths of Icarus and Phaethon, before arguing that scrutiny of how the mean and the related concept of ethical moderation are treated by early modern authors represents a vital but underexploited tool for literary analysis. Particular attention is paid to detailed case studies of works by three canonical authors—Garcilaso, Calderón, Gracián—demonstrating the value of the mean as a locus of critical attention, as analysis of its presentation allows several long-standing disputes in the scholarship on these authors to be newly resolved.

Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy
Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy

Author: Marco Sgarbi

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 3618

ISBN-13: 3319141694

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Gives accurate and reliable summaries of the current state of research. It includes entries on philosophers, problems, terms, historical periods, subjects and the cultural context of Renaissance Philosophy. Furthermore, it covers Latin, Arabic, Jewish, Byzantine and vernacular philosophy, and includes entries on the cross-fertilization of these philosophical traditions. A unique feature of this encyclopedia is that it does not aim to define what Renaissance philosophy is, rather simply to cover the philosophy of the period between 1300 and 1650.

Castilian Writers, 1400-1500
Castilian Writers, 1400-1500

Author: Frank Domínguez

Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 504

ISBN-13:

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Presents career biographies and criticism for Castilian writers of the fifteenth century. There are also essays on topics such as theater, poetry, and travel writers of Castile.

Essays on medieval translation in the Iberian Peninsula
Essays on medieval translation in the Iberian Peninsula

Author: Tomàs Martínez i Romero

Publisher: Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9788480213653

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Carlos Alvar, Germà Colón, Albert Hauf, Peter Russell and Curt Wittlin among about ten more experts of well-known international prestige bring important studies that approximate us to the theory and practice of 15th century translation. This edition is done by the Creighton University (Omaha) and by the Universitat Jaume I (Castellón).

Renaissance Humanism, Volume 2
Renaissance Humanism, Volume 2

Author: Albert Rabil, Jr.

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2016-11-11

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 1512805769

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Renaissance Humanism: Humanism beyond Italy
Renaissance Humanism: Humanism beyond Italy

Author: Albert Rabil

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13:

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Interreligious Encounters in Polemics Between Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Iberia and Beyond
Interreligious Encounters in Polemics Between Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Iberia and Beyond

Author: Mercedes García-Arenal

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789004401761

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This book focuses on polemical religious texts of Iberia's long fifteenth century, a period characterized by both social violence and cultural exchange. It highlights how polemical texts often reveal the interconnected nature of social and cultural intimacy, promoting dialogue and cultural transfer.