Portraying the Prince in the Renaissance - The Humanist Depiction of Rulers in Historiographical and Biographical Texts (Hardcover)

The portrayal of princes plays a central role in the historical literature of the European Renaissance. The sixteen contributions collected in this volume examine such portrayals in a broad variety of historiographical, biographical, and poetic texts. It emerges clearly that historical portrayals were not essentially bound by generic constraints but instead took the form of res gestae or historiae, discrete or collective biographies, panegyric, mirrors for princes, epic poetry, orations, even commonplace books - whatever the occasion called for. Beyond questions of genre, the chapters focus on narrative strategies and the transformation of ancient, medieval, and contemporary authors, as well as on the influence of political, cultural, intellectual, and social contexts. Four broad thematic foci inform the structure of this book: the virtues ascribed to the prince, the cultural and political pretensions inscribed in literary portraits, the historical and literary models on which these portraits were based, and the method that underlay them. The volume is rounded out by a critical summary that considers the portrayal of princes in humanist historiogrpahy from the point of view of transformation theory.

General

Imprint:	De Gruyter
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Transformationen der Antike
Release date:	June 2016
First published:	2016
Editors:	Patrick Baker • Ronny Kaiser • Maike Priesterjahn • Johannes Helmrath
Dimensions:	240 x 170 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	500
ISBN-13:	978-3-11-047236-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
LSN:	3-11-047236-8
Barcode:	9783110472363

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