Evil Lords (eBook, PDF)

Theories and Representations of Tyranny from Antiquity to the Renaissance
Redaktion: Panou, Nikos; Schadee, Hester

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Produktbeschreibung

Evil Lords uses the prism of bad rule or tyranny to enhance our understanding of political discourse from the ancient world to the Renaissance, elucidating premodern notions of sovereignty as well as the relation between ethics and politics, the individual and society, power, and propaganda. Eleven chapters present case studies exploring Hebrew, Graeco-Roman, Byzantine, early, high and late medieval, and Renaissance conceptions and representations of bad or tyrannical government. Since bad rule is always a perversion of the norm, its shifting conceptualizations shed light on historically specific assessments of what constitutes acceptable and legitimate political behavior. Meanwhile, political debate also reflects specific power structures, authorial intent, and audience expectations. Each of the essays, therefore, examines bad rule and its agents within the ideological frameworks and societal patterns of the respective periods, thereby painting a picture of historical and intellectual change. Despite these often profound variations, however, the volume also shows that it is meaningful to think of a Western tradition of tyranny in the premodern world that derived from shared roots in Classical and biblical thought and was further defined by ongoing cross-fertilization spanning two millennia. Thus, Evil Lords offers scholars and students of Western political theory, history, and literature a critical framework through which to revisit the longue dur?e of premodern political reflection.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199394869
• Artikelnr.: 54574095

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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