Thomas Elyot, The Image of Governance and Other Dialogues of Counsel (1533–1541)

Thomas Elyot's Image of Governance is an English-language version of the matter of Thomas More's Utopia: a tract de optimo statu reipublicae, likewise replete with imagined 'dialogues of counsel'; but in an anti-utopian, monarchist perspective, calculated to appeal to Henry VIII. Moreover, Image of Governance is not imaginary but historical, translated from the late antique Latin Historia augusta.

The present book provides critical editions of Elyot's political writings other than the Governour, all of which are or incorporate extensive translations of ancient Greek and Latin writings, like the Image of Governance. 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 Praise of Folly (More too), except in the vernacular, for a relatively broader, more popular English audience.

See news item: Elyot's The Image of Governance (announced, 21 January 2017)

Reviews:

‘This edition will be highly useful to scholars and ought to find its way onto a number of university reading lists.’ — J. S. Crown, Sixteenth Century Journal 50, 2019, 1271

Contents:

vii-viii	General Editors’ Foreword Andrew Hadfield, Neil Rhodes doi:10.2307/j.ctv80ccnn.3	Cite
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1-19	Introduction: Elyot’s Dialogues of Counsel and Translation David R. Carlson doi:10.2307/j.ctv80ccnn.4	Cite
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20-21	Elyot Chronology David R. Carlson doi:10.2307/j.ctv80ccnn.5	Cite
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22-22	Abbreviations David R. Carlson doi:10.2307/j.ctv80ccnn.6	Cite
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23-28	Bibliography David R. Carlson doi:10.2307/j.ctv80ccnn.7	Cite
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29-50	1 Pasqvil the Plain David Carlson doi:10.2307/j.ctv80ccnn.8	Cite
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51-66	2 The Doctrinal of Princes David Carlson doi:10.2307/j.ctv80ccnn.9	Cite
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67-146	3 Of the Knowledge Which Maketh A Wise Man David Carlson doi:10.2307/j.ctv80ccnn.10	Cite
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147-168	4 The Defence of Good Women David Carlson doi:10.2307/j.ctv80ccnn.11	Cite
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169-312	5 The Images of Governance Compiled of the Acts and Sentences David Carlson doi:10.2307/j.ctv80ccnn.12	Cite
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313-334	Exemplary Ancients Index & Biographies David R. Carlson doi:10.2307/j.ctv80ccnn.13	Cite
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335-346	Word List David R. Carlson doi:10.2307/j.ctv80ccnn.14	Cite
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