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" Evil lords : "
edited by Nikos Panou, Hester Schadee.
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BL
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874079
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Evil lords : : theories and representations of tyranny from antiquity to the renaissance /\ edited by Nikos Panou, Hester Schadee.
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New York, NY :: Oxford University Press,, [2018]
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1 online resource
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0199394865
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: 0199394873
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: 9780199394869
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: 9780199394876
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0190635126
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9780190635121
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9780199394852
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Includes bibliographical references.
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| Contents
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Cover; Half title; Evil Lords; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction: Tyranny and Bad Rule in the Premodern West; 1. The Discourse of Tyranny and the Greek Roots of the Bad King; 2. 'A King Like the Other Nations': The Foreignness of Tyranny in the Hebrew Bible; 3. Discourse of Kingship in Late Republican Invective; 4. Imperial Madness in Ancient Rome; 5. Contradictory Stereotypes: 'Barbarian' and 'Roman' Rulers and the Shaping of Merovingian Kingship; 6. Tyrannos basileus: Imperial Legitimacy and Usurpation in Early Byzantium
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7. Evil Lords and the Devil: Tyrants and Tyranny in Carolingian Texts8. There Are No 'Bad Kings': Tyrannical Characters and Evil Counselors in Medieval Political Thought; 9. A Crooked Mirror for Princes: Vernacular Reflections on Wenceslas IV 'the Idle'; 10. 'I Don't Know Who You Call Tyrants': Debating Evil Lords in Quattrocento Humanism; 11. Machiavelli's Prince and the Concept of Tyranny; Bibliography; Index
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By focusing on bad kingship, or tyranny, Evil Lords offers innovative insights into pre-modern conceptions of sovereignty, as well as into the relation between ethics and politics, individual and society, and power and propaganda, as elaborated in a number of different contexts, periods, and genres from Antiquity to the Renaissance.
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Despotism-- History.
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Despotism.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- General.
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321.9
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JC381
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Panou, Nikos
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Schadee, Hester,1979-
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