The Governance of Kings and Princes: John Trevisa's Middle English Translation of the De Regimine Principum of Aegidius Romanus (Garland Medieval Texts)

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. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 8 Preface 10 Typographical conventions 19 List of chapters 20 Text 32 Dedication 34 Book I 36 Part I 36 Part II 64 Part III 144 Part IV 170 Book II 190 Part I 190 Part II 240 Part III 282 Book III 318 Part I 318 Part II 352 Part III 424 The first volume of a critical edition of the last of John Trevisa's major translations (previously unavailable in print). It will be of great value to scholars interested in the reception and transmission of De regimine principum. The word and speche in euerich thyng mote be as large as pat pyng axep and noper more nother lasse, as pe philosofer wol, seuenpe Methaphisice.