{"product_id":"a-critical-companion-to-the-mirrors-for-princes-literature-9789004518759","title":"A Critical Companion to the 'Mirrors for Princes' Literature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy 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 Abbès, Denise Aigle, Olivier Biaggini, Hugo Bizzarri, Charles F. Briggs, Sylvène Edouard, Jean-Philippe Genet, John R. Lenz, Louise Marlow, Cary J. Nederman, Corinne Peneau, Stéphane Péquignot, Noëlle-Laetitia Perret, Günter Prinzing, Volker Reinhardt, Hans-Joachim Schmidt, Tom Stevenson, Karl Ubl, and Steven J. Williams.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes on Contributors    Introduction   Stéphane Péquignot and Noëlle-Laetitia Perret    PART 1: Mapping the Mirrors of Princes’ Traditions    1 Ideal Models and Anti-Models of Kingship in Ancient Greek Literature: Mirror of Princes from Homer to Marcus Aurelius   John R. Lenz  2 Greek and Roman Writers on the Virtues of Good Rulers: Praise, Instruction, and Constraint   Tom Stevenson  3 Carolingian Mirrors for Princes: Texts, Contents, Impact   Karl Ubl  4 Byzantine Mirrors for Princes: An Overview   Günter Prinzing  5 The Conception of Power in Islam: Persian Mirrors of Princes and Sunni Theories (11th–14th Centuries)   Denise Aigle  6 Western Medieval Specula, c. 1150–c. 1450   Charles F. Briggs and Cary J. Nederman  7 Refutation, Parody, Annihilation: The End of the Mirror for Princes in Machiavelli, Vettori and Guicciardini   Volker Reinhardt  8 Specula Principum and the Wise Governor in the Renaissance   Sylvène Édouard    PART 2: The “Making of”, the Circulation and Uses of the Mirrors of Princes – A Thought in Motion    9 The Influence of Aristotle’s Thought on Arab Political-Philosophical Ideas   Makram Abbès  10 The Arabic Mirrors for Princes as Witnesses to the Evolution of Political Thought   Makram Abbès  11 Royal Power and Its Regulations: Narratives of Hārūn al-Rashīd in Three Mirrors for Princes   Louise Marlow   12 The Pseudo-Aristotelian Secret of Secrets as a Mirror of Princes: A Cautionary Tale   Steven J. Williams  13 The Castilian Versions of the Pseudo-Aristotle’s Secretum secretorum and French Versions of Giles of Rome’s De regimine principum (13th–16th Centuries)   A Comparative Perspective   Hugo Bizzarri and Noëlle-Laetitia Perret  14 The Relation between Wisdom Literature, Law, and the Mirrors of Princes: Castile and Sweden   Olivier Biaggini and Corinne Péneau   15 The Use of Mirrors of Princes   Hans-Joachim Schmidt  Conclusion: Mirrors for Princes and the Development of Reflections on the State   Jean-Philippe Genet    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210846757207,"sku":"9789004518759","price":216.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-critical-companion-to-the-mirrors-for-princes-literature-9789004518759","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}