Fogelberg Rota, Stefano. <br/><br/>
Shaping Heroic Virtue :  Studies in the Art and Politics of Supereminence in Europe and Scandinavia. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (221 pages) 
 - Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Series ;  v.249 .
 - Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Series .
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789004303782 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BJ1521 .S537 2015 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>179/.9