A critical edition of John of Salisbury's Policraticus Books I-IV

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" A critical edition of John of Salisbury's Policraticus Books I-IV "
Keats-Rohan, Katharine Stephanie Benedicta

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Record Number	:	1101717
Doc. No	:	TLets704435
Main Entry	:	Keats-Rohan, Katharine Stephanie Benedicta
Title & Author	:	A critical edition of John of Salisbury's Policraticus Books I-IV\ Keats-Rohan, Katharine Stephanie Benedicta
College	:	University of London
Date	:	1988
student score	:	1988
Degree	:	Ph.D.
Abstract	:	This thesis is part of a commitment to re-edit all eight books of John of Salisbury's great treatise on politics for the Oxford University Press. The last edition, and the first critical edition, was that of C C J Webb (Oxford, 1909), which has since been accepted as the definitive text. My own examination of the manuscripts (which has been palaeographical and codicological as well as critical) has totally controverted that view and has enabled me to establish a text that, although still not perfect, represents the text as the author himself wrote it more exactly than any of the ten editions published to date. John's Policraticus, Metalogicon, Letters, and unfinished Historia Pontificalis, are used by historians as primary sources for the politics and education of the day, so that this thesis is the first stage of an enterprise that will greatly benefit the many mediaevalists and their students to whose work the Policraticus is of central or major concern.
Subject	:	English Literature
Added Entry	:	University of London