In his New Latin novel, Methodus Doctrinae Civilis (1628), Adam Contzen (15711635), Jesuit and confessor to Prince Maximilian I of Bavaria, presents his political theory in the form of a vita of fictive Ethiopian king Abissinus. This volume presents the first bilingual, annotated edition of Methodus . The introduction contextualizes Contzen's novel from the perspective of intellectual and literary history.

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Katharina Rilling , Albert-Ludwig University Freiburg i. Br., Freiburg, Germany.