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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Mirrors for princes or mirrors of princes (Latin: specula principum) was a literary genre of didactic political writings throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.It was part of the broader speculum or mirror literature genre.
The first section gives a retelling of an account of distant nations given by Isidore as well as extracts taken from Bernardus Silvestris's Megacosmos or De Mundi Universitate, and the last section includes a passage from John of Salisbury's Policraticus, a section of Seneca's De remediis fortuitorum, the Wheel of Fortune, and the Seven Wonders ...
In his Policraticus he offers a first-hand description of what was happening to music in the High Middle Ages, writing: [3] Bad taste has, however, degraded even religious worship, bringing into the presence of God, into the recesses of the sanctuary a kind of luxurious and lascivious singing, full of ostentation, which with female modulation ...
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