Shaping heroic virtue : : studies in the art and politics of supereminence in Europe and Scandinavia / / edited by Stefano Fogelberg Rota and Andreas Hellerstedt.
In his Nichomachean Ethics (VII.I.I), Aristotle suggests the possibility of a perfection of virtue so extreme that it could be characterized as “heroic” or “divine”. In Shaping Heroic Virtue , eight scholars from different fields of the humanities explore the reception of this notion within a broad...
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| Superior document: | Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 249 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill's Studies in Intellectual History
249. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (221 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction / Andreas Hellerstedt and Stefano Fogelberg Rota
- The Late Ancient Development of a Notion of Heroic Virtue / Erik Eliasson
- Heroic Virtue in Medieval Liturgy / Nils Holger Petersen
- Aristotle’s Heroic Virtue and Medieval Theories of Monarchy / Biörn Tjällén
- The Gem and the Mirror of Heroic Virtue: Emanuele Tesauro and the Heroic at the Court of Savoy / Kristine Kolrud
- Anti-Protestant Heroic Virtue in Early Modern Rome: Queen Christina (1626–1689) and Senator Nils Bielke (1706–1765) / Stefano Fogelberg Rota
- The King’s Virtues in Swedish Mirrors for Princes c. 1300–c. 1600 / Tania Preste
- The Absolute Hero: Heroic Greatness and Royal Absolutism in Sweden 1685–1715 / Andreas Hellerstedt
- The Enlightened Hero: Virtue, Magnanimitas and Glory in Panegyric Poetry on Gustavus iii 1771–1792 / Jennie Nell
- Index.