{"product_id":"thomas-elyot-the-image-of-david-r-carlson-9781781886212","title":"Thomas Elyot, 'The Image of Governance' and Other Dialogues of Counsel (1533-1541)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThomas Elyot's \u003cem\u003eImage of Governance\u003c\/em\u003e is an English-language version of the matter of Thomas More's \u003cem\u003eUtopia\u003c\/em\u003e: a tract \u003cem\u003ede optimo statu reipublicae\u003c\/em\u003e, likewise replete with imagined 'dialogues of counsel'; but in an anti-utopian, monarchist perspective, calculated to appeal to Henry VIII. Moreover, \u003cem\u003eImage of Governance\u003c\/em\u003e is not imaginary but historical, translated from the late antique Latin \u003cem\u003eHistoria augusta\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe present book provides critical editions of Elyot's political writings other than the \u003cem\u003eGovernour\u003c\/em\u003e, all of which are or incorporate extensive translations of ancient Greek and Latin writings, like the \u003cem\u003eImage of Governance\u003c\/em\u003e. In these related 'Dialogues of Counsel', Elyot takes ancient historical cases -- Plato's sale into slavery by Dionysius the tyrant of Syracuse, for example; or the life of the West Asian emperor Zenobia, a woman under patriarchy; or the advice of the Attic orator Isocrates to King Nicocles of Salamis; or the failed but ambitious late Roman imperiate of Alexander Severus; et cetera -- and dramatises them, by means of the sort of Lucianic dialogue that Erasmus had used for the \u003cem\u003ePraise of Folly\u003c\/em\u003e (More too), except in the vernacular, for a relatively broader, more popular English audience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David R. Carlson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1781886210\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781781886212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Modern Humanities Research Association\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/12\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 354\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.09lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.74d","brand":"David R. Carlson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43937990836479,"sku":"9781781886212","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_d62106cb-cd45-4f33-aeae-389fe6bc21ba.jpg?v=1681433102","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/thomas-elyot-the-image-of-david-r-carlson-9781781886212","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}