Evil Lords: Theories and Representations of Tyranny from Antiquity to the Renaissance - Hardcover

 
9780199394852: Evil Lords: Theories and Representations of Tyranny from Antiquity to the Renaissance
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0199394857 ISBN 13: 9780199394852
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

Evil Lords uses the prism of bad rule or tyranny to enhance our understanding of political discourse from the ancient world to the Renaissance, elucidating premodern notions of sovereignty as well as the relation between ethics and politics, the individual and society, power, and propaganda. Eleven chapters present case studies exploring Hebrew, Graeco-Roman, Byzantine, early, high and late medieval, and Renaissance conceptions and representations of bad or tyrannical government. Since bad rule is always a perversion of the norm, its shifting conceptualizations shed light on historically specific assessments of what constitutes acceptable and legitimate political behavior. Meanwhile, political debate also reflects specific power structures, authorial intent, and audience expectations. Each of the essays, therefore, examines bad rule and its agents within the ideological frameworks and societal patterns of the respective periods, thereby painting a picture of historical and intellectual change. Despite these often profound variations, however, the volume also shows that it is meaningful to think of a Western tradition of tyranny in the premodern world that derived from shared roots in Classical and biblical thought and was further defined by ongoing cross-fertilization spanning two millennia. Thus, Evil Lords offers scholars and students of Western political theory, history, and literature a critical framework through which to revisit the longue dur�e of premodern political reflection.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Nikos Panou is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Peter V. Tsantes Endowed Professor in Hellenic Studies, SUNY Stony Brook.

Hester Schadee is Lecturer in European History at the University of Exeter.

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Verlag
OXFORD UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0199394857
ISBN 13 
9780199394852
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
260
Herausgeber
Panou Nikos, Schadee Hester
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