Shaping Heroic Virtue : Studies in the Art and Politics of Supereminence in Europe and Scandinavia.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Heroic Virtue between Active and Contemplative Life in Late Antiquity and the High Middle Ages -- The Late Ancient Development of a Notion of Heroic Virtue -- Heroic Virtue in Medieval Liturgy -- Aristotle's Heroic Virtue and Medieval Theories of Monarchy -- Kingly and Aristocratic Representations of Heroic Virtue in Early Modern Savoy and Rome -- The Gem and the Mirror of Heroic Virtue: Emanuele Tesauro and the Heroic at the Court of Savoy -- Anti-Protestant Heroic Virtue in Early Modern Rome: Queen Christina (1626-1689) and Senator Nils Bielke (1706-1765) -- The Theory and Practice of Heroic Virtue in Early Modern Sweden -- The King's Virtues in Swedish Mirrors for Princes c. 1300-c. 1600 -- The Absolute Hero: Heroic Greatness and Royal Absolutism in Sweden 1685-1715 -- The Enlightened Hero: Virtue, Magnanimitas and Glory in Panegyric Poetry on Gustavus III 1771-1792 -- Index.

Shaping Heroic Virtues is the first scholarly account of how and why heroic virtue proved useful in the self-assertion of rulers and elites in pre-modern Europe.

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