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17— Classical Authorities on Political Theory (Book II)

1. Politics II.2 1261a; II.7 1266b; and II.8 1267b. [BACK]

2. D , fol. 36. [BACK]

3. See Joachim Prochno, Das Schreiber- und Dedikationsbild in der deutschen Buchmalerei, 800-1100 (Leipzig and Berlin: B. G. Teubner, 1929); Dorothee Klein, "Autorenbild," in RDK , vol. 1, cols. 1309-14. [BACK]

4. Erwin Panofsky, Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1960), 84. [BACK]

5. W. N. Hargreaves-Mawdsley, A History of Academical Dress in Europe until the End of the Eighteenth Century (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963), 38. Plate 3 (opp. p. 38) shows the lower left scene of our Figure 7 as a basis for identifying this academic costume. [BACK]

6. For an identification and discussion of this subject, see Paulina Ratkowska, "Sokrates i Platon: Uwagi o ikonografii tematu Magister cum discipulo w sztuce XII-XIII w," Biuletyn Historii Sztuki 36/2 (1974): 103-21. A French summary appears on pp. 120-21. Reference to the inversion of this theme (Plato dictating to Socrates) inspired the work by Jacques Derrida, The Postcard: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond , trans. and intro. Alan Bass (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1987). The postcard reproduction of the miniature that led Derrida to write the book is the drawing by Matthew Paris in a collection of prognosticating tracts (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 304, fol. 31v). The drawing is dated to 1250-55 by Suzanne Lewis, The Art of Matthew Paris in the Chronica Majora , continue

California Studies in the History of Art, 21 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1987), 386-88, fig. 230. John Tagg kindly called the Derrida publication to my attention. [BACK]

7. For two informative studies of the subdivisions of the medieval author portrait, see Derek A. Pearsall and Elizabeth Salter, "Pictorial Illustration of Late Medieval Poetic Texts: The Role of the Frontispiece or Prefatory Picture," in Medieval Iconography and Narrative: A Symposium (Odense: Odense University Press, 1980), 100-123; and Jacqueline Perry Turcheck, "A Neglected Manuscript of Peter Lombard's Liber sententiarum and Parisian Illumination of the Late Twelfth Century," Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 44 (1968): 54-60. Michael Gullick kindly brought the second article to my attention. [BACK]

8. Grabmann, "Methoden und Hilfsmittel des Aristotelesstudiums im Mittelalter," 13. [BACK]

9. Politiques , Gloss, 76. [BACK]

10. See Alastair J. Minnis, Medieval Theory of Authorship: Scholastic Literary Attitudes in the Later Middle Ages , 2d ed. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988), 75 and 159. [BACK]

11. Politiques , 83-84. [BACK]

12. See Pearsall and Salter, "Pictorial Illustration," 118. [BACK]

13. For further discussion of Guillaume de Machaut and his relationship to Charles V, see below, Ch. 23 at nn. 22-23. [BACK]


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