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Poli 212 Western Political Philosophy
Professor Sammy Basu |
Medieval Political Philosophy |
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Late Antiquity and Middle Ages
St.
Augustine of Hippo
(354-430)
http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/augu.htm
Thomas
Aquinas
(1224-1274)
www.philosophypages.com/
ph/aqui.htm
www.home.duq.edu/~bonin/
thomasbibliography.html
by Boticelli, Fondation Abegg,
Riggisberg,Bern
WHAT IS MEDIEVAL POLITICAL
PHILOSOPHY? James V. Schall, S.J.
http://www.ewtn.com/library/THEOLOGY/FR90104.htm
Advice to Princes, Mirror
of Princes Genres
Advice to
Princes: On the Ideal Ruler (Macrobius on the Dream of Scipio, Romans 13;
St.
Augustine, City of God, 5.24; Aquinas On Kingship;
Dante, De
monarchia; Chaucer's "Melibee" and "Monk's Tale" and
"Knight's Tale") (include some consideration of the ending of Troilus
and Criseyde;
the first book of Lydgate's Lives of Ss. Edmund and Fremund)
Hoccleve's De
regimine principium (based upon Giles of Rome)
Desiderius
Erasmus, The Education of a Christian Prince with the Panegyric for Archduke
Philip of Austria (1516)
ÒThe Education of a Christian Prince is one of the most important "advice-to-princes" texts published in the Renaissance and was dedicated to Charles V. It is a strongly pacifist work in which Erasmus sought to ensure that the prince governed justly and benevolently.Ó