Morrás Ruiz-Falcó, María, 1962-Lawrance, Jeremy2025-02-042025-02-042022Morrás M, Lawrance J (eds.). Alfonso de Cartagena’s Memoriale virtutum (1422): Aristotle for Lay Princes in Medieval Spain. Brill: Leiden; 2022. 445 p. DOI: 10.1163/9789004194502_0029789004411159http://hdl.handle.net/10230/69487In Alfonso de Cartagena’s 'Memoriale virtutum' (1422), María Morrás and Jeremy Lawrance offer a critical edition of an anthology of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, compiled and significantly altered by the major Castilian intellectual of the day, Bishop Alfonso de Cartagena, and addressed to the heir to the throne of Portugal, Crown Prince Duarte. The work is a speculum principis, an education of a future king in the virtues suitable to a statesman. Cartagena’s choice of Aristotle was a harbinger of Renaissance ideas. The “memorial” sheds light on a society in transition, setting new ethical guidelines for the ruling class at the crossroads between medieval feudalism and Renaissance absolutism.application/pdfeng© Brill Academic Publishers http://dx.doi.rorg/10.1163/9789004194502_002 This is an open access title distributed under the terms of the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license,which permits any non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided no alterations are made and the original author(s) and source are credited. Further information and the complete license text can be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Cartagena, Alonso de, 1385?-1456info:eu-repo/semantics/bookhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004194502_002info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess