Evil Lords
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-939485-2 (ISBN)
Evil Lords uses the prism of bad rule or tyranny to enhance our undestranding of political discourse from the ancient world to the renaissance, offering insights into pre-modern conceptions of sovereignty, as well as into the relation between ethics and politics, the individual and society, and power and propaganda. The volume brings together case studies from 12 top scholars, each examining various aspects of Hebrew, Graeco-Roman, Byzantine, medieval, and Renaissance conceptions and representations of tyrannical government.
The book's chapters also examine notions of bad rule within the ideological frameworks and societal patterns of the respective periods, thus painting a picture of historical and intellectual change. This chronological and geographical span creates a narrative of the Western tradition on tyranny from its ancient roots up to its radical revision at the brink of modernity. Tracing this current, the book also shows how tributary developments indigenous to Republican Rome, the Germanic North, and Byzantium fed, and altered, the course of tyranny.
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.
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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 13.08.2018 |
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| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 236 x 165 mm |
| Gewicht | 517 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-939485-7 / 0199394857 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-939485-2 / 9780199394852 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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