C
calendar illustrations, 249
Calkins, Robert, 249
Camille, Michael, 249 , 251 , 344 n.34
cardinal virtues, 72 , 93 , 109 , 119 , 127 . See also Virtue (personification allegory); virtues
Cardinal Virtues (personifications), 68
Carruthers, Mary, 23 , 32 , 103
Cassian, Collations , 8
castle, as visual metaphor, 236
Cave, Terence, 374 n.20
Chantilly, Musée Condé, manuscript of Ethiques, 71
charity, works of, 166
Charlemagne:
as model of enlightened monarch, 10 , 335 n.54;
as saint, 10
Charles V:
appearance of, 20 ;
and Aristotelian definition of justice, 93 ;
attacked (as dauphin), 267 ;
as book collector, 15 ;
compared to Charlemagne, 10 ;
and contemplative life, 174 ;
and dangers of sedition, 238 ;
as dauphin, 13 –14;
devotion to common good, 196 ;
and family, 48 , 51 –53, 99 –101, 101 , 291 , 301 ;
and "good democracy," 252 ;
and Guillaume de Machaut, 278 –79;
and Holy Roman Emperor, 90 ;
iconography of, 95 ;
images of, Pl. 1 , 16, 18 –19, 21 , 38 , 39 , 45 –46, 46 –49, 56 , 56 –57, 182, 296 , 334 n.45, 352 n.22;
interest in astrology, 15 –21;
intervention in manuscript production, 31 , 43 , 89 –90, 334 n.37;
intervention in translation process, 11 ;
knightly training of, 278 ;
knowledge of Latin, 6 ;
love of music, 278 ;
participation in intellectual debate, 40 , 161 ;
as patron, xxi , 6 –10, 12 , 17 –19, 31 , 40 , 43 , 53 , 279 –80, 303 , 338 n.10;
private study of, 17 ;
and ransom dilemma, 162 ;
as reader of Oresme's translation, 37 ;
regulation of craftsmen, 229 , 267 ;
and right of banishment, 220 ;
as silent reader, 39 ;
as studious monarch, 16 , 17 –18, 20 , 21, 38 , 48 , 50 , 57 , 119 , 161 ;
taste for heavily illustrated manuscripts, 31 ;
translation project of, xxii , 6 –9, 303 –4;
use of French for correspondence, 5 ;
and warrior role, 73 ;
as wise ruler, 57 , 59 , 119 , 303
Charles VI, 351 n. 10;
images of, 351 n.4
Charles of Navarre (the Bad), 14 , 238 , 305
Le chemin de long estude (Christine de Pizan), quoted, 7
Christ, 166 ;
blessing, 130 ;
identified with Wisdom, 122
Christine de Pizan, 40 , 73 , 161 , 291 ;
Le chemin de long estude , 7 ;
discussion of Charles V's interest in astrology, 17 ;
discussion of Charles V's translation program, 6 –9;
images of, 351 n.4;
Le livre des fais et bonnes meurs du sage roy Charles V , 340 n.26, 349 n.22;
Le livre des trois vertus , 281 ;
Livre du trésor de la cité des dames , 281 ;
quoted, 31
Les chroniques d'Espagne ou de Burgos (Gonzalo of Hinojosa), translation by Jean Golein, 8 , 335 n.56
church:
Oresme's commentary on (in Politiques ), 229 ;
as political community, 179
Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 128 ;
De amicitia , 141
Cité de Dieu (Augustine), translation by Raoul de Presles, 7 –8, 11 –12, 29 , 335 n.54, 345 n.46;
illustration cycle of, 31 , 33 ;
quoted, 40
citizen, Aristotelian concept of, 260
Citizens and Noncitizens (paradigm), 254 –55
citizenship:
Aristotelian concept of, 253 ;
exclusion of agricultural workers, craft workers, and merchants from, 252 , 261
city, medieval, 103
City of God (Augustine), 196 , 249 , 376 n.31;
commentaries on, 11
city-state (polis):
Italian, 111
civic science, concept of, 51 –52
Clagett, Marshall, 19
class distinctions, 70 , 73 , 126 , 135 , 138 –40, 150 –52
classical culture, medieval appropriation of, 3
clergy, 194 ;
as citizens, 254–55 ;
role in ideal state, 261
cloak and beggar motif, 166 –67
codicology, xxii . See also manuscripts
Coleman, Janet, quoted, 32
Coleman, Joyce, 349 n.22
collaboration:
in manuscript production, xxiii , 107 , 305 ;
in marriage and work, 288 –89, 291 ;
between Oresme and Raoulet d'Orléans, 258 , 267 –68
Collations (Cassian), translation by Jean Golein, 8 , 10
Collège de France, 307
commentaries, by Oresme, 29 –30
commentary tradition, 161
commonality of property, Platonic theory of, 205 , 207
common good:
Aristotelian concept of, 37 , 193 ;
and love of knowledge, 59
communitas perfecta , 252 , 265 ;
Aristotelian concept of, 193
Conciliation (Entrepesie) (personification), Pl. 3 , 96–97 , 98
conduct, modes of, 139 –40, 366 n.10
conduct literature, Renaissance, 281
conflict between intellect and desire, Aristotelian view of, 131
Conspiracy (paradigm), 232–33 , 235
constitution, Aristotelian concept of, 194 –95
contemplation, Aristotelian concept of, 165
Contemplative Happiness (Félicité contemplative) (personification allegory), Pl. 6 , 163 –64, 167 –72, 168
contemplative life, 122 –23, 150 , 165 –67, 171 –72, 306 , 369 n.30, 386 n.32
Continence (personification), 132 , 133 –37, 136 , 138 –40, 147
contrast:
in illustration programs, 192 ;
between opposites, 226 –27
Corbechon, Jean (translator), Propriétés des choses (Bartholomaeus Anglicus), 8
Coronation Book of Charles V , 10 , 31 , 95 , 282 , 293 , 296
counsellors, royal, 194 , 194 , 305 ;
as citizens, 254–55 ;
depicted, 263 –64;
role in ideal state, 261
Covetousness (Convoitise) (personification), 86 , 92
Cowardice (Couardie) (personification), 76 , 79 –80
craft workers, 120 –21, 126 , 210–11 , 265 , 305 ;
crenellated wall motif, 78 , 83 , 120 , 146 ;
in MS A illustration program, 103
cross-references, Oresme's use of, 281
crown, 58 , 73 , 99 , 163 , 166 ;
of Philosophy, 128 ;