Burley's Commentary on the Politics: Exegetic Techniques and Political Language

After having summarized the results of contemporary scholarship, the paper focuses on those features that might have attracted medieval readers, although Burley's expositio is not an original work in the strictest sense of the term. It shoould rather be read in a tradition , and especially on the background of the so-called Aquinas- Peter of Auvergne commentary, which has been identified as its main source. The paper compares methodically Burley's text with ist model, evaluating changes and shifts. Alessandro D. Conti is the editor of the volume.