...Steven Bruso This essay examines representations of knightly physicality in two fifteenth-century English texts: the Middle English Secreta Secretorum and Knyghthode and Bataile . These neglected texts are examples of mirrors for princes and Vegetian military manuals, respectively, and both...

..., the text that follows is entitled Secreta secretorum mulierum, the “Secrets of the secrets of women,” a title which would surely attract more attention than it would avert.51 I will argue, however, that far from serving merely as a flimsy guard against...

... with references to Boethi- us’s De consolatione philosophiae, and to Aristotle’s Metaphysica, Politica, and the pseudo-­Aristotelian Secreta secretorum. In spite of their differences, the texts by Agnolo and Marco clearly reflect their familiarity with the sorts of religious literature we have seen...

... –  For Middle English texts of the story, see M. A. Manzalaoui, ed., Secretum Secreto- rum: Nine English Versions, vol. , Early English Text Society o.s., vol. (Oxford: Oxford University Press,  – Robert Steele, ed., Three Prose Versions of the “Secreta Secretorum,” vol. , Early...

..., such as the Secreta secretorum and Vincent of Beauvais’ Speculum morale, as well as the works of Alanus, . . . Richard of Bury’s Philobiblon and Petrarch’s De remediis utriu­ sque Fortunae” (Lydgate, 171). 26 “King Henry’s Triumphal Entry” in The Minor Poems of John Lydgate, ed. Henry Noble...