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active life, 166 –67, 171 –72

adlocutio , Roman iconographic theme, 238

adoption ceremony, in medieval courts, 99

Aegidius de Thebaldis, 340 n.33

agricultural life, 305 ;

benefits of, 287 –88;

and good government, 249 –51;

Oresme's views on, 251 –52

agricultural workers, 21011 ;

character of, 247 –49;

in Good Democracy, 245 –47;

as noncitizens, 25455 , 261 , 305 ;

Oresme's view of, 229 , 291 ;

positive view of, 385 n.25;

representation of, 244 , 251

aids to memory. See memory aids

Alberti, Leon Battista, Della famiglia , 281

Albert the Great, 41 , 281 , 370 n.15;

commentaries on Aristotle, 25 , 29 , 178 , 346 n.52

Albertus Magnus. See Albert the Great

Alexander, Jonathan, 251

Algorismus proportionum (Oresme), 279

Ali ibn Ridwan, 19

allegories. See personifications; personification allegories; decision allegories

Alphonso of Castile, Tables astronomiques d'Alphonse, roi de Castille , 9

Apuleius, De dogmate Platonis , 205

Aquinas, Thomas, 370 n.15;

on artificial memory, 67 , 130 ;

commentaries on Aristotle, 25 , 29 , 178 , 352 n.24;

on friendship, 141 ;

on memory, 41 ;

Summa theologica , 122 , 128

arcadian imagery, 247

architecture, in memory aids, 183 , 185

Aristocracy (paradigm), Pl. 8 , 187, 189 , 190 , 194 , 375 n.21

Aristotelian corpus, 29 ;

illustrations in Latin manuscripts, 30 –31;

Latin translations of, 25 ;

readers' aids for, 24 .

See also titles of works

Aristotle:

as authority on astronomy, 17 ;

De anima , 32 ;

De memoria et reminiscentia , 32 ;

depicted as teacher, 204 ;

On the Heavens , 8 , 29 –30;

images of, 17 ;

influence on Oresme, 14 ;

Liber de regno , 181 ;

Nicomachean Ethics , xxi , 14 , 24 , 37 , 60 , 72 , 85 , 93 , 113 , 120 , 290 , 361 n.48;

Politics , xxi , 14 , 25 , 37 , 177 –79, 214 , 216 , 373 n.8, 375 n.23, 383 n.18;

Rhetoric , 182 –83, 238 .

See also pseudo-Aristotle

Li ars d'amour, de vertu, et de boneurté27

ars nova , 278 –79

Ars nova (Philippe de Vitry), 279

Art (personification), Pl. 4 , 118 , 120 –21, 124 , 126 –27, 205 , 364 n.29

Artevelde, Jacques d', 238

astrologers, 17

astrology, 15 –21, 16 , 20 , 21 ;

Oresme's views on, 341 n.42

audience, lay, 3 –6, 20 , 54

Augustine, Saint, 122 , 170 , 335 n.54;

City of God , 7 , 11 , 196 , 249 , 376 n.31;

Soliloquies , 8

authorial identity:

growth of, 207 ;

translator's assumption of, 181 , 306

author portrait, as iconographic type, 199 , 204 –7

Avarice (personification), 81 , 86 , 91

Averroes:

commentary on Metaphysics (Aristotle), 99 ;

paraphrase of Economics (pseudo-Aristotle), 280

Avignon, 4 , 11 , 306

Avis au roys :

discussion of justice in, 94 ;

discussion of Prudence in, 128 ;

iconography of Justice in, 115 –16;

illustrations in, 51 , 67 , 68 , 73 , 77 , 80 , 81 , 85 , 87, 89 , 99 , 100, 115 , 194 , 194, 217 , 227 , 228, 238 , 263 ,


408

Avis au roys

264 , 269 , 272 ;

as precedent for illustration program of Politiques , 182

Avranches, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS 223, 178 , 343 n.22, 370 n.14

Avril, François, 31 , 33 , 249 , 279 , 384 n.26


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