Models of political competence : : the evolution of political norms in the works of Burgundian and Habsburg court historians, c. 1470-1700 / / by Maria Golubeva.

Offering a systematic analysis of texts produced at the courts of Burgundy and Austrian Habsburg over a period reaching from the 1470's until the early 1700's, this book traces the development of the idea of successful and competent political behaviour as seen through the eyes of court his...

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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 220.
Physical Description:1 online resource (160 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • I Military, Institutional and Discursive Competence As Seen by Burgundian Court Historians, c. 1470–c. 1500
  • II Politics into Fiction: Maximilian’s Transformation of the Burgundian Model
  • III The Rise of the Confessional Model
  • IV The Revival of Civic Humanism, raison d’ état and the Incompetence of Subjects in the Histories of Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato
  • V Mismanagement and Other Virtues: The Construction of Secular Political Competence in the Historiography of Gottlieb Eucharius Rinck
  • Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Persons.