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Reflecting Mirrors, East and West: Transcultural Comparisons of Advice Literature for Rulers (8th - 13th century) (Hardcover)
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Reflecting Mirrors, East and West: Transcultural Comparisons of Advice Literature for Rulers (8th - 13th century) (Hardcover)
Series: Islamic History and Civilization, 189
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In Reflecting Mirrors, East and West Enrico Boccaccini sheds new
light on Mirrors for Princes, the pre-modern genre of advice
literature for rulers. A popular genre in the societies that
emerged from the Late Antique oecumene, Mirrors for Princes are
considered here, for the first time, as a transcultural phenomenon
that challenges the dichotomy of the Orient and the Occident.
Traditionally, the historiographic tradition has viewed 'European'
and 'Middle Eastern' Mirrors as distinct and incommensurable.
Analyzing the contents and discourses in four Mirrors, ostensibly
separated by space, time and language, Enrico Boccaccini
convincingly draws out the surprising continuities between these
texts, while also showing how they are embedded in their own
historical, literary and political context.
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