Petrus de Alvernia. Scriptum super III-VIII libros Politicorum Aristotelis
Edizione, introduzione e note
Edited by Lidia Lanza
Hardback (Published)
(March 2021)
ISBN: 9783954902781
6.69 x 9.45 inches
Price: $373.50
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This is the first critical edition of the most significant medieval commentary on Books III-VIII of Aristotle’s Politics. This commentary was intended as a continuation of Thomas Aquinas’s literal commentary on Books I-III of the Politics. It was highly influential and was regarded as the standard commentary on Aristotle’s Politics until the late sixteenth century. The volume includes the analysis of both the medieval manuscript tradition and the printing history of this text, and offers an account of Peter of Auvergne’s “political thought” advanced in his philosophical and theological works. It contains also an edition of Books III-VIII of William of Moerbeke’s Latin translation of the Politics.
This volume contains the first critical edition of the Scriptum super III-VIII libros Politicorum by Peter of Auvergne as well as a pragmatical edition of Books III-VIII of the medieval Latin translation of Aristotle’s Politics. Intended as the continuation of Aquinas’ unfinished commentary on the first three books of the Politics, the Scriptum became-together with Aquinas’ commentary-the commentary on the Politics. From its appearance in the late thirteenth century to the end of the sixteenth century, the Scriptum represented the most authoritative and influential interpretation of Books III-VIII of the Politics.The introduction to the volume provides both an overview of Peter’s political thought and a case study of the production and dissemination of a university text. An examination of the manuscripts traces the preparation of the text from its first transcription and revision by a scribe close to the author-if not the author himself-to the preparation of the finished exemplar and its diffusion through the system of peciae. The introduction also explains how the text was adapted to fit the standards of humanistic Latin when it was first printed in the fifteenth century: its language was adjusted to humanistic standards, many formulations were reshaped, and passages were suppressed. These changes were subsequently preserved in all later editions of the text. Freed from this humanistic patina with which it has been transmitted since the early age of printing age, the Scriptum is now restored to its original version.
- Edited by Lidia Lanza
Other Titles in this Series
Repräsentationen der Bibel in der Volkssprache
Studien zu den mittelalterlichen Handschriften mit deutschen Texten aus dem Zisterzienserkloster Altzelle
Neue Gesetze für ein besseres Leben?
Überlegungen zu Praktiken und Theorien der Gesetzgebung im Mittelalter
„Mio corpo venga sepolto in terra sancta“ – Genese und Verbreitung eines Wunderberichts des 13. Jahrhunderts
Die Blutacker in Jerusalem, der Heilige Acker in Akkon und der Camposanto zu Pisa
Das dynamische Sein bei Nicolaus Cusanus
Ein Beitrag zur Begriffsgeschichte der dynamischen Ontologie
Belles Lettres. Les figures de l’écrit au Moyen Âge / Figurationen des Schreibens im Mittelalter
Colloque fribourgeois 2017
Medieval theories of the creative act, Théories médiévales de l’acte créatif, Theorien des kreativen Akts im Mittelalter
Fribourg Colloquium 2015, Colloque Fribourgeois 2015, Freiburger Colloquium 2015
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