The aim of this book is to examine Erasmus' attitude toward the medieval past and to relate it to his historical consciousness.

This collection surveys the tradition of medieval commentaries on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics from its thirteenth-century origins to the fifteenth century, ...

L’article livre l’édition d’un traité intitulé, d’après le plus ancien témoin, De origine virtutum et vitiorum. Conservé dans quatre manuscrits, il est probablement l’œuvre d’un religieux anglais dans les premières décennies du xiiie siècle. Il s’attache principalement à décrire l’interaction entre les puissances naturelles de l’âme humaine et les obligations morales des chrétiens. L’auteur manifeste son originalité par l’usage de classifications éloignées des traditions académiques. En dépit d’une forme scolaire, ce traité répond avant tout à des préoccupations pastorales.

The contributors to this volume examine the diverse roles played by moral virtues in the political writings of the Later Middle Ages. Medieval political thought has a long tradition of scholarship, and its ethical dimension has always received sustained attention. This volume specifically concentrates on the meaning and function of virtues in a political context, a theme which has thus far been neglected. The authors deal with Latin texts (occasionally in combination with vernacular ones) from the 13th to 15th centuries (...) that define, legitimize, or criticize secular rule by using catalogues of virtues, originating from ancient philosophy as well as Christian moral theology. The medieval texts under discussion are of French, German, English, Italian, and Spanish origin, and vary from educational treatises and historiography to moral theology and political philosophy. (shrink)