Portraying the prince in the renaissance : the Humanist depiction of rulers in historiographical and biographical texts / edited by Patrick Baker [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baker, Patrick, Editor.

Helmrath, Johannes, Editor.

Kaiser, Ronny, Editor.

Priesterjahn, Maike, Editor.

Series:

Transformationen der Antike ; Band 44.

Transformationen der Antike ; Band 44

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

Literature, Modern--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Europe--Kings and rulers--Congresses.

Europe.

Europe--Historiography--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (129 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, 2016.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Der Herrscher und die gute Ordnung. Das Bild Karls VII. in der französischen Historiographie am Übergang von der tradierten zur humanistisch geprägten Historiographie

Charlemagne am Renaissancehof. Die Darstellung Karls des Großen in Paolo Emilios De rebus gestis Francorum

Guter König, schlechter König? Die Darstellung Heinrichs V. und Heinrichs VI. von England in Polydor Vergils Anglica historia

Alfonso ›the Magnanimous‹ of Naples as Portrayed by Facio and Panormita: Four Versions of Emulation, Representation, and Virtue

Illyrian Trojans in a Turkish Storm: Croatian Renaissance Lords and the Politics of Dynastic Origin Myths

Personelle Serialität und nationale Geschichte. Überlegungen zu den Herrschergestalten in Franciscus Irenicus’ Germaniae Exegesis

Riccardo Bartolinis Austrias (1516) oder: Wie ein Herrscher zum Feldherrn gegen die Türken wird

Der Herrscher als zweiter Salomo. Zum Bild König Roberts von Anjou in der Renaissance

Pier Candido Decembrio and the Suetonian Path to Princely Biography

Die Cosmias des Giovanni Mario Filelfo (1426–1480)

Einhard reloaded. Francesco Tedeschini Piccolomini, Hilarion aus Verona, Donato Acciaiuoli und die Karlsbiographik im italienischen Renaissance-Humanismus

Auf den Spuren Paolo Giovios? Herrscherdarstellung in Jacobus Sluperius’ Elogia virorum bellica laude illustrium

Princes between Lorenzo Valla and Bartolomeo Facio

Juan Páez de Castro, Charles V, and a Method for Royal Historiography

Picturing the Perfect Patron? Francesco Filelfo’s Image of Francesco Sforza

Verbis phucare tyrannos? Selbstanspruch und Leistungsspektren von zeithistorischer Epik als panegyrischem Medium im 15. Jahrhundert

The Description Makes the Prince: Princely Portrayal from the Perspective of Transformation Theory

Index of Names

Index of Places

List of Contributors

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 27, 2016).

ISBN:

9783110472394

3110472392

9783110473377

3110473372

OCLC:

957575036