Evil Lords

Theories and Representations of Tyranny from Antiquity to the Renaissance

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

AvNikos Panou,Hester Schadee,SUNY Stony Brook) Panou, Nikos (Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Peter V. Tsantes Endowed Professor in Hellenic Studies, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Peter V. Tsantes Endowed Professor in Hellenic Studies,UK) Schadee, Hester (Lecturer in European History 1450-1750, Lecturer in European History 1450-1750, University of Exeter

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-09-06
Mått236 x 165 x 22 mm
Vikt517 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor264
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780199394852

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Introduction: Hester Schadee and Nikos PanouChapter 1: The Discourse of Tyranny and the Greek Roots of the Bad King Nino LuraghiChapter 2: 'A king like the other nations': the Foreignness of Tyranny in the Hebrew Bible Jennie GrilloChapter 3: Discourse of Kingship in Late Republican Invective Yelena BarazChapter 4: Imperial Madness in Ancient Rome Aloys WinterlingChapter 5: Contradictory Stereotypes: 'Barbarian' and 'Roman' Rulers and the Shaping of Merovingian Kingship Helmut ReimitzChapter 6: Tyrannos basileus: Imperial Legitimacy and Usurpation in Early Byzantium John Haldon and Nikos PanouChapter 7: Evil Lords and the Devil: Tyrants and Tyranny in Carolingian Texts Sumi ShimaharaChapter 8: There Are No 'Bad Kings': Evil Counselors and Tyrannical Characters in Medieval Political Thought Cary NedermanChapter 9: A Crooked Mirror for Princes: King Wenceslas IV (1361-1419) between Medieval Literature and Modern Historiography Pavlina RychterovaChapter 10: 'I don't know who you call tyrants': Debating Evil Lords in Quattrocento Humanism Hester SchadeeChapter 11: Machiavelli's Prince and the Concept of Tyranny Gabriele PedullàBibliography