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The Secret of Secrets

The Secret of Secrets The Scholarly Career of a Pseudo-Aristotelian Text in the Latin Middle Ages

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Secretum Secretorum was purported to be an extended letter of advice sent by Aristotle to Alexander the Great while he was campaigning in Persia. The title and the two famous names made the work irresistible for medieval readers, says Williams in his 1991 doctoral dissertation (no institution noted). After describing the contents and form, he trace

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ISBN: 9780472113088
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Imprint: The University of Michigan Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 320.1
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 481
Weight: 784g
Height: 235mm
Width: 160mm
Spine width: 34mm

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