This books sheds light on a previously neglected theme - that of the meaning and function of virtues in a political context - by analysing Latin texts (occasionally in combination with vernacular ones) from the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries that define, legitimize, or criticize secular rule by using catalogues of virtues, origina
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