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Titolo: | Shaping heroic virtue : studies in the art and politics of supereminence in Europe and Scandinavia / / edited by Stefano Fogelberg Rota and Andreas Hellerstedt |
Pubblicazione: | Boston : , : Brill. |
c2015 | |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (221 p.) |
Disciplina: | 179/.9 |
Soggetto topico: | Virtue - History |
Heroes | |
Middle Ages | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: | Fogelberg RotaStefano HellerstedtAndreas |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Andreas Hellerstedt and Stefano Fogelberg Rota -- The Late Ancient Development of a Notion of Heroic Virtue / Erik Eliasson -- Heroic Virtue in Medieval Liturgy / Nils Holger Petersen -- Aristotle’s Heroic Virtue and Medieval Theories of Monarchy / Biörn Tjällén -- The Gem and the Mirror of Heroic Virtue: Emanuele Tesauro and the Heroic at the Court of Savoy / Kristine Kolrud -- Anti-Protestant Heroic Virtue in Early Modern Rome: Queen Christina (1626–1689) and Senator Nils Bielke (1706–1765) / Stefano Fogelberg Rota -- The King’s Virtues in Swedish Mirrors for Princes c. 1300–c. 1600 / Tania Preste -- The Absolute Hero: Heroic Greatness and Royal Absolutism in Sweden 1685–1715 / Andreas Hellerstedt -- The Enlightened Hero: Virtue, Magnanimitas and Glory in Panegyric Poetry on Gustavus iii 1771–1792 / Jennie Nell -- Index. |
Sommario/riassunto: | In his Nichomachean Ethics (VII.I.I), Aristotle suggests the possibility of a perfection of virtue so extreme that it could be characterized as “heroic” or “divine”. In Shaping Heroic Virtue , eight scholars from different fields of the humanities explore the reception of this notion within a broad range of artistic, political and religious contexts and map its enduring importance in the self-fashioning of monarchs and political elites. The case studies included in the volume span from Late Antiquity to the 18th century and include material from different parts of Europe, with a particular emphasis on Scandinavia. Contributors include Erik Eliasson, Stefano Fogelberg Rota, Andreas Hellerstedt, Kristine Kolrud, Jennie Nell, Nils Holger Petersen, Tania Preste and Biörn Tjällén. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Shaping heroic virtue |
ISBN: | 90-04-30378-2 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910480285403321 |
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