Portraying the Prince in the Renaissance
Subtitle: The Humanist Depiction of Rulers in Historiographical and Biographical Texts
Publisher: de Gruyter GmbH, Walter
Published: 2016
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 489
ISBN-13: 9783110472363
Subjects: Humanism
Description: What role do rulers play in historical texts and what determines the way they are portrayed? More fundamentally, what qualifies a text as a work of history, and what functions do such writings have with regard to rulers? This volume explores these themes, considering the national or regional, personal, discursive, and generic parameters that influenced the writing of history and the way rulers were depicted in humanist texts.