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Shaping Heroic Virtue: Studies in the Art and Politics of Supereminence in Europe and Scandinavia (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 249)

By Stefano Fogelberg Rota (editor) , Andreas Hellerstedt (editor)

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Pub
Year
2015
ISBN
9004298614, 9789004298613
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3493282 bytes)
Edition
Lam
Pages
211\222
Time added
2022-10-05 13:04:13

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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. Contents 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

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