theories and representations of tyranny from antiquity to the renaissance /
نام نخستين پديدآور
edited by Nikos Panou, Hester Schadee.
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
محل نشرو پخش و غیره
New York, NY :
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Oxford University Press,
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
[2018]
تاریخ پیش بینی شده انتشار
تاريخ
1805
مشخصات ظاهری
نام خاص و کميت اثر
1 online resource
یادداشتهای مربوط به کتابنامه ، واژه نامه و نمایه های داخل اثر
متن يادداشت
Includes bibliographical references.
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متن يادداشت
Cover; Half title; Evil Lords; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction: Tyranny and Bad Rule in the Premodern West; 1. The Discourse of Tyranny and the Greek Roots of the Bad King; 2. 'A King Like the Other Nations': The Foreignness of Tyranny in the Hebrew Bible; 3. Discourse of Kingship in Late Republican Invective; 4. Imperial Madness in Ancient Rome; 5. Contradictory Stereotypes: 'Barbarian' and 'Roman' Rulers and the Shaping of Merovingian Kingship; 6. Tyrannos basileus: Imperial Legitimacy and Usurpation in Early Byzantium
متن يادداشت
7. Evil Lords and the Devil: Tyrants and Tyranny in Carolingian Texts8. There Are No 'Bad Kings': Tyrannical Characters and Evil Counselors in Medieval Political Thought; 9. A Crooked Mirror for Princes: Vernacular Reflections on Wenceslas IV 'the Idle'; 10. 'I Don't Know Who You Call Tyrants': Debating Evil Lords in Quattrocento Humanism; 11. Machiavelli's Prince and the Concept of Tyranny; Bibliography; Index
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بدون عنوان
8
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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.