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Article: Le 'Policratique' de Jean de Salisbury (1372), Livre V.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- April 1, 2008
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Le 'Policratique' de Jean de Salisbury (1372), Livre V. Trans. by Denis Foulechat. Ed. by Charles Brucker. (Publications Romanes et Francaises, 242) Geneva: Droz. 2006. 907 pp. SwF 152. ISBN 978-2-600-01072-6.
John of Salisbury was a beacon of the so-called Twelfth-Century Renaissance. Around 1159 he dedicated the eight books of his imposing Policraticus, a Latin textbook on kingship (subtitled On Courtier's Trifles), to Thomas a Becket, expecting that it would be passed on to Henry II. Over two centuries later John's views were still thought relevant enough for the French King Charles V the Learned (1364-80) to ask Denis Foulechat to translate it. The king was ...
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