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Policraticus or Polycraticus is a work by John of Salisbury, written around 1159. Sometimes called the first complete medieval work of political theory , [ 1 ] it belongs, at least in part, to the genre of advice literature addressed to rulers known as " mirrors for princes ", but also breaks from that genre by offering advice to courtiers and ...
John of Salisbury was a follower of the Ciceronian perspective. Followers of this perspective believed that things could be definitively proven, but still left open to be challenged. John emphasized this belief in both the Policraticus and the Metalogicon. Following the worldview of Cicero, John of Salisbury dissociated himself from the extreme ...
John of Salisbury, Policraticus = 'The Statesman's Book' (1159). Godfrey of Viterbo, Speculum regum (c. 1183), dedicated to his Staufian imperial patrons, father Frederick Barbarossa and son Henry VI. Pseudo-Plutarch, Institutio Traiani (first quoted in John of Salisbury's Policraticus). Gerald of Wales, De instructione principis (c. 1193)
He emerges as a far more cheerful and extrovert character than his master. . ." An incident in the Policraticus, records Robert negotiating three large bribes from three candidates for the vacant see of Avella—and promptly disclosing the simony to an assembly of bishops, who elected a worthy abbot instead. Robert collected the bribes ...
Français : Page frontispice du Policraticus de Jean de Salisbury. L'enluminure dépeint le roi Charles V le Sage dans une cathèdre de bois, en train de lire un ouvrage posé sur une roue à livres. Une main céleste bénit le souverain. Sous la miniature, le prologue du traducteur Denis Foulechat assimile le roi à Salomon.
John of Salisbury gave it a definitive Latin high medieval form in his Policraticus around 1159: the king was the body's head; the priest was the soul; the councillors were the heart; the eyes, ears, and tongue were the magistrates of the law; one hand, the army, held a weapon; the other, without a weapon, was the realm's justice. The body's ...
After his studies he returned to Flanders with two precious manuscripts – Expositio Origenis in Matheum (a 13th-century Latin version of Origen's Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew) and Policraticus Iohannis Salabriensis de nugis curialium (a 14th-century manuscript of John of Salisbury's Policraticus) – both of which are now in Bruges ...
Similarly the dedication of the work to the widowed Cecilia, countess of Hereford, indicates the period when Stephen was a royal clerk resident in England, before 1163. Its apparent quotation of the Policraticus of Stephen's fellow courtier, John of Salisbury, would date it to after 1159. [7] The work has attracted attention for several reasons.