Virtue ethics and education from Late Antiquity to the eighteenth century / edited by Andreas Hellerstedt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hellerstedt, Andreas, editor.

Series:

Knowledge communities (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Knowledge communities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics--History.

Ethics.

History.

Virtue--History.

Virtue.

Moral education--History.

Moral education.

Physical Description:

334 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]

Summary:

This book argues that pre-modern societies were characterized by the quest for 'virtue '. The concept of virtue, complicated and much fought-over, permeated society, encouraging wisdom, courage, and justice, while simultaneously legitimizing social hierarchies based on sex and nationality. By examining pedagogical texts, rituals, performances, and images, this book illuminates the evolution of virtue through time, helping readers understand the guiding principles of historical action.

Contents:

Eustratius of Nicaea as a source for the Neoplatonist notion of levels of virtue in the Early Latin commentators on the Nicomachean Ethics p. 37 / Erik Eliasson

Teaching virtue through the law: Justice and royal authority in Giles of Rome's De regimine principum (c.1280) p. 59 / Biörn Tjällén

The tree and its fruit: The problem of good deeds in the Swedish Reformation p. 79 / Mari Eyice

Fostering civic virtue: Johannes Messenius and Swedish school drama p. 97 / Tania Preste

Dancing virtue: Educational aspects of Queen Christina's court ballets p. 113 / Stefano Fogelberg Rota

The path to virtue: Dancing the education of Achilles and the Nereids p. 135 / Kristine Kolrud

Virtue and duty: Academic moral discourse in seventeenth-century Sweden p. 179 / Bo Lindberg

The Royal Rhetor: Princely and common virtues in the operas and plays of Gustavus III p. 207 / Jennie Nell

Antagonistic parents in Frances Brooke's The Old Maid and The History of Julia Mandeville p. 253 / Michaela Vance

Cracks in the mirror: Changing conceptions of political virtue in mirrors for princes in Scandinavia from the Middle Ages to c.1700 p. 281 / Andreas Hellerstedt.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789462984448

9462984441

OCLC:

1019665104