Portraying the Prince in the Renaissance: The Humanist Depiction of Rulers in Historiographical and Biographical Texts

ISBN-13: 9783110472363 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 500 str.

Patrick Baker; Ronny Kaiser; Maike Priesterjahn

Opis

What role do rulers play in historical texts and what determines the way they are portrayed? More fundamentally, what qualifies a text as a work of history, and what functions do such writings have with regard to rulers? This volume explores these themes, considering the national or regional, personal, discursive, and generic parameters that influenced the writing of history and the way rulers were depicted in humanist texts.

Recenzje

"Certainly this volume shows another face of humanism, which we can call "monarchical": a face no less important than the "civil" or "republican," which a certain tradition of studies, mainly focused on Florence, tends to represent as exclusive."
Fulvio Delle Donne in: Renaissance Quarterly Vol. LXX, No. 3, pp. 1041 - 1043

"To conclude, Portraying the Prince is a refreshing complement to classic overviews [...], and provides greater richness and a more vibrant texture to the canvas of humanist historiography."
Astrid M. H. Nilsson in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review Blog (2017), www.bmcreview.org

O autorze

P. Baker, R. Kaiser, M. Priesterjahn, und J. Helmrath, Humbodt-Universität zu Berlin, Deutschland.