TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fogelberg Rota,Stefano
AU  - Hellerstedt,Andreas
TI  - Shaping heroic virtue: studies in the art and politics of supereminence in Europe and Scandinavia 
T2  - Brill's studies in intellectual history,
SN  - 9789004303782
AV  - BJ1521 .S495 2015eb
U1  - 179/.9 23
CY  - Boston
PB  - Brill.
KW  - Virtue
KW  - History
KW  - Heroes
KW  - Middle Ages
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - 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 range of artistic, political and religious contexts and map its enduring importance in the self-fashioning of monarchs and political elites. The case studies included in the volume span from Late Antiquity to the 18th century and include material from different parts of Europe, with a particular emphasis on Scandinavia. Contributors include Erik Eliasson, Stefano Fogelberg Rota, Andreas Hellerstedt, Kristine Kolrud, Jennie Nell, Nils Holger Petersen, Tania Preste and Biörn Tjällén
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004303782
ER  -