Portraying the Prince in the Renaissance

Patrick Baker

ISBN 10: 3110472368 / ISBN 13: 9783110472363

Published by De Gruyter, De Gruyter Jun 2016, 2016

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -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. 504 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Portraying the Prince in the Renaissance
• Publisher: De Gruyter, De Gruyter Jun 2016
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3110472368
• ISBN 13: 9783110472363
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 246W x 175H x 33D millimeters 246 millimeters width by 175 millimeters height by 33 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1025 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

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

P. Baker, R. Kaiser, M. Priesterjahn, and J. Helmrath, Humbodt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.