Charles F. Briggs

Charles Frederick Briggs

Charles Augustus Briggs

From the time of its composition (c.1280) for Philip the Fair of France until the early sixteenth century, Giles of Rome's mirror of princes, the De regimine principum, was read by both lay and clerical readers in the original Latin and in several vernacular translations, and served as model or source for several works of princely advice.This study uses an interdisciplinary approach towards the surviving manuscript copies, as well as documentary and literary evidence, to show how people of the later Middle Ages read Giles's text and appropriated it for their own particular purposes.

Reading and Writing Politics at Court and University, C.1275-c.1525

Giles of Rome's De Regimine Principum

David C. Fowler

Paul G. Remley

This is the first edition of the Middle English version of an influential treatise on governance entitled De Regimine Principum. The first volume contains a critical text of the Middle English prose and second will provide an introduction, textual notes and a glossary. Aegidius Romanus (Giles of Rome), an Augustinian friar and professor of theology at the University of Paris, composed the Latin treatise that underlies the Middle English text toward the end of the reign of the French king Philip III (1270-85). The work was addressed to the king’s son, who succeeded his father as Philip IV, know as "the Fair" (1285-1314). This edition first published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Charles F. Briggs

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