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Shaping heroic virtue : studies in the art and politics of supereminence in Europe and Scandinavia /
Shaping Heroic Virtues is the first scholarly account of how and why heroic virtue proved useful in the self-assertion of rulers and elites in pre-modern Europe.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
Brill,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Brill's studies in intellectual history ;
v. 249, |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Heroic Virtue between Active and Contemplative Life in Late Antiquity and the High Middle Ages; The Late Ancient Development of a Notion of Heroic Virtue; Heroic Virtue in Medieval Liturgy; Aristotle's Heroic Virtue and Medieval Theories of Monarchy; Kingly and Aristocratic Representations of Heroic Virtue in Early Modern Savoy and Rome; The Gem and the Mirror of Heroic Virtue: Emanuele Tesauro and the Heroic at the Court of Savoy.
- Anti-Protestant Heroic Virtue in Early Modern Rome: Queen Christina (1626-1689) and Senator Nils Bielke (1706-1765)The Theory and Practice of Heroic Virtue in Early Modern Sweden; The King's Virtues in Swedish Mirrors for Princes c. 1300-c. 1600; The Absolute Hero: Heroic Greatness and Royal Absolutism in Sweden 1685-1715; The Enlightened Hero: Virtue, Magnanimitas and Glory in Panegyric Poetry on Gustavus III 1771-1792; Index.