Policraticus or Polycraticus is a work by John of Salisbury, written around 1159. Sometimes called the first complete medieval work of political theory...
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(1990) [1159]. Nederman, Cary J (ed.). Policraticus, sive de nugis curialium et de vestigiis philosophorum [Policraticus: Of the frivolities of courtiers and...
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meditation by the twelfth-century philosopher John of Salisbury, in his Policraticus, book three. This included a discourse on theatrical metaphors from the...
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latter. He attended many services at the Notre-Dame Choir School. In his Policraticus he offers a first-hand description of what was happening to music in...
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and consumed all"; the fable is also alluded to in John of Salisbury's Policraticus (Camden's source) and William Averell's A Marvailous Combat of Contrarieties...
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2020-08-08. Policraticus (2019-01-29). ""Mafia State": Kosovo's PM Accused of Running Human Organ, Drug Trafficking Cartel". POLICRATICUS. Archived from...
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of Adrian V emanated from reading excerpts from John of Salisbury's Policraticus, in which the author anonymously attributed the behavior of avarice to...
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written for his son and heir presumptive Saint Emeric. John of Salisbury, Policraticus = 'The Statesman's Book' (1159). Godfrey of Viterbo, Speculum regum (c...
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concept can be traced back to the Middle Ages in John of Salisbury's work Policraticus, in which the term body politic was coined and used. The term biopolitics...
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of Matthew) and Policraticus Iohannis Salabriensis de nugis curialium (a 14th-century manuscript of John of Salisbury's Policraticus) – both of which...
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Charles V pictured with a precious book, miniature of John of Salisbury's Policraticus, 1372...
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engage in lawlessness.[citation needed] In 1159, John of Salisbury wrote Policraticus in an attempt to regulate the conduct of armies engaged in "justifiable"...
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Halsall, Paul (October 1998). "Medieval Sourcebook: John of Salisbury: Policraticus, Book Four (selections)". Fordham University). Archived from the original...
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Marriage of Mercury and Philology (fifth century), John of Salisbury's Policraticus (1159), John Gower's Mirour de l'Omme, and Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury...
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friends, a man of great wealth and loaded with honours." Likewise, in his Policraticus, VII.19, John of Salisbury calls him "an able administrator . . . feared...
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direct revolutionary assassination of unethical tyrannical rulers in his Policraticus. Theological notions of the right of revolution were elaborated in the...
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Christian scholar to defend tyrannicide, under specific conditions, in the Policraticus, circa 1159. His theory was derived from his idea of the state as a political...
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Fragments of these treatises are found in John's Metalogicon (IV, 35) and Policraticus (VII, 3). Hauréau confounds Bernard of Chartres with Bernardus Silvestris...
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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...
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heights of their virtue". In several chapters of the third book of his Policraticus, a moral encyclopedia, he meditates on the fact that "the life of man...
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2020-08-08. Policraticus (2019-01-29). ""Mafia State": Kosovo's PM Accused of Running Human Organ, Drug Trafficking Cartel". POLICRATICUS. Archived from...
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Martin – Pink – Pippin – Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar – Poetics – Policraticus – Polish Logic – Political Liberalism – Political Order in Changing Societies...
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third books and selections from the seventh and eighth books of the Policraticus of John of Salisbury. Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press...
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John's time as secretary that he wrote his two most famous works, the Policraticus and the Metalogicon. Others who studied for a time in Theobald's household...
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of Schönau c. 1160 De institutione inclusarum by Aelred of Rievaulx Policraticus by John of Salisbury 1163? Makhzan al-Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries)...
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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...
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Alphonse XI. The Estoria puts forth a worldview heavily influenced by the Policraticus written a century earlier by John of Salisbury and then in vogue in political...
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Herman of Bury's On the Miracles of St Edmund, John of Salisbury's Policraticus, William of Malmesbury's Deeds of the Kings of the English and Deeds...
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however, but was added by an editor and is taken from John of Salisbury's Policraticus. It is found in a single copy, a manuscript copied by Pietro Ippolito...
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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...
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