The Meroure of Wysdome composed for the use of James IV, King of Scots, AD 1490, by Johannes de Irlandia
III: Books VI and VI
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Emerald Publishing Limited
Published:1st Jan '90
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This treatise in Scots on the wisdom and discipline necessary to a prince, in the mirrors for princes genre, is one of the earliest examples of original Scots prose A Scottish example of the mirror for princes genre popular in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, John Irelan’d The Meroure of Wyssdome, not only examines theological aspects. Ireland appends a political treatise along the lines of the popular regimen principum, instructing the king in the rudiments of governing the realm.
ISBN: 9780080370019
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 1g
314 pages