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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

Craig McDonald editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Emerald Publishing Limited

Published:1st Jan '90

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The Meroure of Wysdome composed for the use of James IV, King of Scots, AD 1490, by Johannes de Irlandia cover

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: 670g

314 pages