A Critical Companion to the 'Mirrors for Princes' Literature (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004518759)

Why devote a Companion to the "mirrors for princes", whose very existence is debated? These texts offer key insights into political thoughts of the past. Their ambiguous, problematic status further enhances their interest. And although recent research has fundamentally challenged established views of these texts, until now there has been no critical introduction to the genre.
This volume therefore fills this important gap, while promoting a global historical perspective of different "mirrors for princes" traditions from antiquity to humanism, via Byzantium, Persia, Islam, and the medieval West. This Companion also proposes new avenues of reflection on the anchoring of these texts in their historical realities.

Contributors are Makram Abb鑚, Denise Aigle, Olivier Biaggini, Hugo Bizzarri, Charles F. Briggs, Sylv鈩e Edouard, Jean-Philippe Genet, John R. Lenz, Louise Marlow, Cary J. Nederman, Corinne Peneau, St駱hane P駲uignot, No?le-Laetitia Perret, G?ter Prinzing, Volker Reinhardt, Hans-Joachim Schmidt, Tom Stevenson, Karl Ubl, and Steven J. Williams.

Author: No?le-Laetitia Perret
ISBN-10: 9004518754
ISBN-13: 9789004518759
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 12/08/2022
Pages: 572
Format: Hardcover