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- Close section Front Matter
- Close sectionDe Principis Instructione: Instruction for a Ruler
- Original Preface
- Close sectionBook One
- Chapter headings
- First Preface
- 1. A ruler's governance
- 2. A ruler's gentleness
- 3. A ruler's sense of shame
- 4. A ruler's chastity
- 5. A ruler's patience
- 6. A ruler's temperance
- 7. A ruler's clemency
- 8. A ruler's generosity
- 9. A ruler's magnificence
- 10. A ruler's justice
- 11. A ruler's prudence
- 12. A ruler's foresight
- 13. A ruler's moderation
- 14. A ruler's boldness and courage
- 15. A ruler's glory and nobility
- 16. The difference between a king and a tyrant
- 17. The death and bloody end of tyrants
- 18. The praiseworthy life and death of chosen princes
- 19. An exposition of rulers' titles
- 20. A ruler's piety and devotion
- 21. A ruler's ultimate purpose and happy consummation of the whole of life
- Close sectionBook Two
- Chapter headings
- Preface to Book Two
- 1. The favourable events of the early part of the reign of Henry II, King of the English, and the enormous increase of his lands
- 2. The great men who visited England during his reign
- 3. His enormous later crimes and the martyrdom of Thomas
- 4. How thereafter the wheel of his fortune always inclined downwards and was always cast down through the attacks of his sons against him
- 5. A letter announcing the agreement of Louis, King of the French, and Henry, King of the English, to go off together on pilgrimage to Jerusalem
- 6. The two cardinals meanwhile sent to Normandy to make an investigation into the death of the martyr Thomas
- 7. The three monasteries founded, but deceitfully, in place of his pilgrimage to Jerusalem, so often promised
- 8. The scourges inflicted on King Henry by God, and the death of the young king
- 9. The qualities of Henry III
- 10. Count Geoffrey again set against his father, and his early death soon thereafter
- 11. The qualities of count Geoffrey and of his younger brother, treated together
- 12. How King Henry was warned in vain and castigated by God, not only by afflictions but also through frequent visions and admonitions
- 13. A revelation disclosed to a knight of Lincolnshire, namely Roger of Asterby
- 14. How the lord stirred him to a change of heart, both by punishments and visions, and also sometimes by benefits and a kind of blandishment
- 15. A letter declaring the agreement of King Henry with King Philip
- 16. A letter declaring the peace and agreement established by King Henry between the king of France and the count of Flanders
- 17. A letter announcing King Henry's will, solemnly made at Waltham
- 18. The privileges obtained from Pope Alexander III, especially concerning the Welsh
- 19. Other privileges sought on account of the Irish
- 20. The council of Cashel
- 21. The qualities of King Henry II, copied out here from the end of the topography of Ireland
- 22. The kingdom of Jerusalem in the meantime greatly beset and oppressed by Saladin's power
- 23. A letter of Pope Urban sent to England about this
- 24. The patriarch of Jerusalem sent to England to seek King Henry's help
- 25. A letter of Pope Lucius, both admonitory and threatening, directed to King Henry at that time
- 26. The words and warnings uttered by the author of this work to King Henry about this and his answers
- 27. The response given to the patriarch at London and the complete frustration of his efforts
- 28. The warnings and admonitions that the patriarch uttered three times against King Henry, as if by the spirit of prophecy
- 29. Description of Henry II, King of the English
- 30. Notable events of our time in England
- 31. If the eventual outcome of events had been happy, then his history would have been admirable
- Close sectionBook Three
- Chapter headings
- Preface to Book Three
- 1. The last conference between Kings Louis and Henry, and King Louis's tearful petition to God there
- 2. The reclamation of lands by Philip, Louis's son, according to Louis's petition and the vision previously seen about this, both from the House of Blois, the Duke of Burgundy, and Philip, Count of Flanders, as well as from King Henry
- 3. The land of Jerusalem meanwhile fiercely attacked by the parthians and pagans and almost completely conquered
- 4. A letter of Pope Clement directed to the faithful about bringing help
- 5. Richard, Count of Poitou, the first of the great men this side of the Alps to be signed with the cross, setting a noble example not only for those this side of the Alps but for all
- 6. The astronomers deceived by this great upheaval, and a certain consolatory letter from someone
- 7. Count Richard impeded by his father's ill-will as he was about to set out, and how on this account he turned bravely to war
- 8. The qualities of Richard, Count of Poitou, inserted here, as occasion arises
- 9. King Henry meanwhile intent on exacting tithes in England, and the many visions that both warned and threatened him, but were manifested in vain
- 10. How Richard, Count of Poitou, broke with his father and turned to the King of France
- 11. How King Henry faced confusion in everything and uttered words of apostasy, wrenched from him by shame and sorrow
- 12. The question asked, and an answer given, as to why Normandy defends itself nowadays less vigorously than it used to
- 13. King Henry infected with the troublesome disease of an ulcer around the intestines, and his confession made at last, but more dragged from him than from devotion
- 14. The vision revealed to the nobleman Richard de Redvers, and shortly fulfilled in King Henry
- 15. The Emperor Frederick meanwhile undertakes the business of the cross and assumes the vow of pilgrimage manfully and without delay
- 16. The vision concerning the business of the cross that he who wrote this saw, and the explanation of the vision
- 17. The emperor's bravery and the contemptuous letter sent to Saladin
- 18. Saladin's reply and the opposing letter sent by him to the emperor
- 19. How the emperor journeyed through Hungary and, after crossing the Danube, came through Bulgaria to Macedonia
- 20. Envoys sent to the greek emperor, who were first seized and detained, but then released out of fear, and the grant of a market for food
- 21. The deceit of the Sultan of Iconium, and the crossing of his whole land in forty days, armed and hungry, with many dangers and almost continuous fighting, a way being opened by weapons and courage and with great slaughter of the enemy
- 22. After so many victories, the emperor, alas, drowned and destroyed in a river in Armenia and such a great army reduced to nothing at Antioch, and, as plenty followed after such hunger, both disturbed and dispersed
- 23. The passage of the emperor's son with part of the army, but much diminished, from Antioch to Tyre and from Tyre to Acre to no good purpose
- 24. How King Henry was driven from Le Mans when the city was set on fire, and the apostate words he again uttered
- 25. The city of Tours occupied by the French, and King Henry shut up in the little town of Azay and forced to a kind of surrender, through vengeance and, as it were, a deception divinely sent
- 26. The paintings, the false deeds, and, finally, the ignominious death of King Henry that followed
- 27. The origins of both King Henry and Queen Eleanor, and the totally corrupt root of their sons
- 28. Some notable events preceding the death of such a great ruler
- 29. Various visions foretelling the downfall of King Henry
- 30. The vision of King William Rufus, which he saw, and another which was seen concerning him, and the later death of King Richard that was similar to his death
- 31. Certain final additions to demonstrate the foregoing
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