Dans les Arcanes du Pouvoir
by Denis Loree
A la croisee des sciences medievales, de la politique et de la morale, le Secret des Secrets apparait comme un hapax litteraire de la fin du Moyen Age. Veritable best seller depuis la version latine du XIIIe siecle, l’ouvrage – une lettre apocryphe d’Aristote a Alexandre – pretend fournir un ensemble de conseils au prince pour lui permettre de gouverner. Teinte d’occultisme, le traite, qui affirme contenir l’ultime secret, se diffuse tres largement en France au XVe siecle et sert autant de miroir des princes que de vade-mecum populaire. L’ouvrage propose analyse le contenu et le fonctionnement du traite pseudo-aristotelicien pour cerner les raisons de son immense succes a l’aube de la Renaissance.
- By (author) Denis Loree
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