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The Secret of Secrets - The Scholarly Career of a Pseudo-Aristotelian Text in the Latin Middle Ages (Hardcover)
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The Secret of Secrets - The Scholarly Career of a Pseudo-Aristotelian Text in the Latin Middle Ages (Hardcover)
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The Secret of Secrets. The title alone promises the revelation of
the most treasured arcana and piques our interest. Add the names of
Aristotle and Alexander the Great, and our curiosity is securely
engaged. Readers reacted similarly during the Latin Middle Ages.
The work alleges to be an extended letter of advice sent by
Aristotle to his former pupil Alexander the Great while the latter
was on a campaign in Persia. It stood at the top of the
"best-seller" list for hundreds of years and was read by two
different audiences: scholars and laypersons. Steven J. Williams
focuses his study on its reception by European scholars, starting
with its translation into Latin during the High Middle Ages and
carrying the story through to the time when scholarly attention
waned around 1550.
An important medieval text that also provides a window onto
medieval intellectual life, Secret of Secrets played a modest
though significant role in medieval scholarly life: "significant"
in that it was used in a variety of scholarly contexts, had some
part to play in the scholarly controversies of the day, and was so
often read that an impressive number of manuscripts are still
extant today; "modest" in that it was cited much less frequently
than the major works of its day.
Steven J. Williams is Associate Professor in the Department of
History, New Mexico Highlands University.
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