Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The career of John of Wales; 2. The works of John of Wales: sources and technique; 3. The Breviloquium de Virtutibus Antiquorum Principum et Philosophorum; 4. Communiloquium, part I: John of Wales on the state and its members; 5. Communiloquium, parts 2 and 3: John of Wales on secular society; 6. Communiloquium, parts 4–7: John of Wales on scholars and churchmen; 7. Philosophers and saints: the Compendiloquium and Breviloquium de Sapientia Sanctorum of John of Wales; 8. The works of John of wales: spread and influence; Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

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This book examines the selected writings of John of Wales, a thirteenth-century Franciscan scholar.