By focusing on bad kingship, or tyranny, Evil Lords offers innovative insights into pre-modern conceptions of sovereignty, as well as into the relation between ethics and politics, individual and society, and power and propaganda, as elaborated in a number of different contexts, periods, and genres from Antiquity to the Renaissance.
By focusing on bad kingship, or tyranny, Evil Lords offers innovative insights into pre-modern conceptions of sovereignty, as well as into the relation between ethics and politics, individual and society, and power and propaganda, as elaborated in a number of different contexts, periods, and genres from Antiquity to the Renaissance.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Nikos Panou is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Peter V. Tsantes Endowed Professor in Hellenic Studies, SUNY Stony Brook. Hester Schadee is Lecturer in European History at the University of Exeter.
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* Introduction: Hester Schadee and Nikos Panou * Chapter 1: The Discourse of Tyranny and the Greek Roots of the Bad King Nino Luraghi * Chapter 2: 'A king like the other nations': the Foreignness of Tyranny in the Hebrew Bible Jennie Grillo * Chapter 3: Discourse of Kingship in Late Republican Invective Yelena Baraz * Chapter 4: Imperial Madness in Ancient Rome Aloys Winterling * Chapter 5: Contradictory Stereotypes: 'Barbarian' and 'Roman' Rulers and the Shaping of Merovingian Kingship Helmut Reimitz * Chapter 6: Tyrannos basileus: Imperial Legitimacy and Usurpation in Early Byzantium John Haldon and Nikos Panou * Chapter 7: Evil Lords and the Devil: Tyrants and Tyranny in Carolingian Texts Sumi Shimahara * Chapter 8: There Are No 'Bad Kings': Evil Counselors and Tyrannical Characters in Medieval Political Thought Cary Nederman * Chapter 9: A Crooked Mirror for Princes: King Wenceslas IV (1361-1419) between Medieval Literature and Modern Historiography Pavlina Rychterova * Chapter 10: 'I don't know who you call tyrants': Debating Evil Lords in Quattrocento Humanism Hester Schadee * Chapter 11: Machiavelli's Prince and the Concept of Tyranny Gabriele Pedullà * Bibliography
* Introduction: Hester Schadee and Nikos Panou * Chapter 1: The Discourse of Tyranny and the Greek Roots of the Bad King Nino Luraghi * Chapter 2: 'A king like the other nations': the Foreignness of Tyranny in the Hebrew Bible Jennie Grillo * Chapter 3: Discourse of Kingship in Late Republican Invective Yelena Baraz * Chapter 4: Imperial Madness in Ancient Rome Aloys Winterling * Chapter 5: Contradictory Stereotypes: 'Barbarian' and 'Roman' Rulers and the Shaping of Merovingian Kingship Helmut Reimitz * Chapter 6: Tyrannos basileus: Imperial Legitimacy and Usurpation in Early Byzantium John Haldon and Nikos Panou * Chapter 7: Evil Lords and the Devil: Tyrants and Tyranny in Carolingian Texts Sumi Shimahara * Chapter 8: There Are No 'Bad Kings': Evil Counselors and Tyrannical Characters in Medieval Political Thought Cary Nederman * Chapter 9: A Crooked Mirror for Princes: King Wenceslas IV (1361-1419) between Medieval Literature and Modern Historiography Pavlina Rychterova * Chapter 10: 'I don't know who you call tyrants': Debating Evil Lords in Quattrocento Humanism Hester Schadee * Chapter 11: Machiavelli's Prince and the Concept of Tyranny Gabriele Pedullà * Bibliography
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