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This e-book examines the chosen writings of John of Wales, a thirteenth-century Franciscan student. although overshadowed traditionally by way of males like Thomas Aquinas and Bonaventure, John contributed considerably to the preaching explosion of the later heart a while, devoting his scholastic energies to the construction of encyclopedic preaching aids for the transforming into variety of the religious and discovered rising from the recent universities. via an in depth research of his global view, the writer establishes John's powerful curiosity in politics and modern social matters and is helping to give an explanation for why his writings appealed to younger preachers and the preferred mind's eye. John's historical attractiveness and literary impact also are totally explored. His works appear to have been an immense resource of classical fabric for ecu literary texts of the interval, and hence, as well as historians and theologians, this remarkable e-book will entice these drawn to the survival and transmission of Greek and Latin literature.
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De Virt. 2. Brev. de Virt. 3. Seep. 50-51. R. M. Ogilvie, 1976, pp. 38-40. 46 The 'Breviloquium de Virtutibus' certain delight in finding it used to illustrate the Roman capacity for victory without vanity. 18 We turn now to others ofJohn's attitudes, and to the question of what the Breviloquium de Virtutibus can contribute to our understanding of them.
2 For the extent of this success, see below, chap. 8. 41 John of Wales beginning and end of one work. This is one of several indications of apparent casualness of composition to be found in this Breviloquium, and it may be as well to discuss them before examining the ideas in the main text. John's conception of his Breviloquium is nicely expressed in his opening passage. 4 Therefore he presents some model and persuasive tales for the use of those in authority and the instruction of rulers ('narrationes exemplares et persuasorie ad utilitatem presidentium et instructionem in thronis residentium').
Very possibly John used the Sorbonne text. But, even if he did, we have only half an answer. We deduced that when Communiloquium was written, John knew only Nodes Atticae 1-7. This means that the Fournival Gellius should have not been his source when writing Communiloquium, and that Communiloquium must have been written before John had access to this complete copy of the text. So if Communiloquium was written in Paris, it was written before the Fournival text became available in 1272, suggesting that John's arrival in Paris must have dated to the 1260s.