Prince's mirror of Charles IV.

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In older research, the epistola de lege et moribus Caesaris ("Letter on the legal and moral duties of the emperor"), a late medieval work from the genre of the prince mirror , written around the emperor, is referred to as the prince mirror of Charles IV Charles IV was written.

An emperor, who is not named, describes the necessary requirements ad gubernandum Romanorum Bohemieque regna (i.e. to rule the Roman Empire and that of the Bohemians ). The letter was written in response to the request of the imperial son and heir to the throne to explain to him the normam modumque regnandi (rules and procedures of governance) of a ruler. The author strives for a style based on classical models ( Cicero ) and draws content mainly from Augustine and from Petrarch's treatise De avaritia vitanda (1358). The authorship of Charles IV, represented by the editor Samuel Steinherz , has found contradiction in research and is no longer accepted today.

output

  • Samuel Steinherz: A Prince's Mirror of Charles IV , (Sources and Research from the Field of History, Vol. 3), Prague 1925.

literature

  • Samuel Steinherz: To the Prince's Mirror of Charles IV. In: Communications of the Association for the History of Germans in Böhmen 64 (1932), pp. 111-118.
  • Wilhelm Berges : The prince mirrors of the high and late Middle Ages , Hiersemann, Leipzig 1938.

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