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The most influential question-commentary on the Politics in the Middle Ages This volume is the first complete critical edition of Peter of Auvergne's Questiones super I-VII libros Politicorum. The Questiones was produced at the Faculty of Arts of Paris sometime between late 1291 and 1296 and is the earliest surviving commentary in question form on Aristotle's Politics. As the introduction explains, the Questiones was philosophically innovative and became the most influential question-commentary on the Politics in the Middle Ages. The volume also includes a critical edition of an earlier oral report (reportatio) of Peter's teaching on Books I-II and part of III which became the basis for those sections of the Questiones. This volume is of interest to scholars of medieval philosophy and the history of political thought and is a reference point for future research on the medieval reception of Aristotle's Politics and medieval Aristotelian practical philosophy more broadly.

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Il est indubitable que l'édition de Lidia Lanza est un ouvrage d'une très haute qualité. Nous ne pouvons que formuler le même jugement à propos de l'ouvrage de Marco Toste: l'édition des Questiones a été faite avec beaucoup de soin; elle est précédée d'une très solide introduction historico-philologique et philosophique de plus de 300 pages; s'y ajoutent encore une large bibliographie (très utile pour quiconque s'intéresse à la philosophie pratique du Moyen Âge tardif) et des index (évidemment plus amples que dans l'édition du Sciptum).

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Marco Toste is research fellow at the Institute for Philosophical Studies of the University of Coimbra.

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