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Author : Tom De Haan
Release : 1989
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 703/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Mirror for Princes by : Tom De Haan
Download or read book Mirror for Princes written by Tom De Haan. This book was released on 1989. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rosemarie McGerr
Release : 2011-11-15
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 415/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Lancastrian Mirror for Princes by : Rosemarie McGerr
Download or read book A Lancastrian Mirror for Princes written by Rosemarie McGerr. This book was released on 2011-11-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Yale New statutes manuscript and medieval English statute books : similarities and differences -- Royal portraits and royal arms : the iconography of the Yale New statutes manuscript -- The Queen and the Lancastrian cause : the Yale New statutes manuscript and Margaret of Anjou -- Educating the prince : the Yale New statutes manuscript and Lancastrian mirrors for princes -- "Grace be our guide" : the cultural significance of a medieval law book.
Author : Nasrin Askari
Release : 2016-08-09
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 915/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Medieval Reception of the Shāhnāma as a Mirror for Princes by : Nasrin Askari
Download or read book The Medieval Reception of the Shāhnāma as a Mirror for Princes written by Nasrin Askari. This book was released on 2016-08-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nasrin Askari explores the medieval reception of Firdausī’s Shāhnāma, or Book of Kings (completed in 1010 CE) as a mirror for princes. Through her examination of a wide range of medieval sources, Askari demonstrates that Firdausī’s oeuvre was primarily understood as a book of wisdom and advice for kings and courtly elites. In order to illustrate the ways in which the Shāhnāma functions as a mirror for princes, Askari analyses the account about Ardashīr, the founder of the Sasanian dynasty, as an ideal king in the Shāhnāma. Within this context, she explains why the idea of the union of kingship and religion, a major topic in almost all medieval Persian mirrors for princes, has often been attributed to Ardashīr.
Author : Vivienne J. Gray
Release : 2010-12-16
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 810/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Xenophon's Mirror of Princes:Reading the Reflections by : Vivienne J. Gray
Download or read book Xenophon's Mirror of Princes:Reading the Reflections written by Vivienne J. Gray. This book was released on 2010-12-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Xenophon is perhaps best known as the leader of the Ten Thousand on the Anabasis, the famous march of the Greek army through hostile territory to the Black Sea. However, he was also a prolific author, and in this study Vivienne J. Gray focuses upon the ways in which his literary practices shape images of leadership in his narrative works. Gray surveys the views on leadership that Xenophon credits to Socrates, and illustrates in detail his construction of leadership modelsthrough the close examination of selected narratives in works such as Anabasis and Cyropaedia. The techniques include the creation of patterned narratives, as well as allusions to the writings of Homer and Herodotus. Gray takes issue with the school of thought that finds hidden subversion beneath Xenophon'ssurface praise of leaders.
Author : Anthony Downey
Release : 2015
Genre : Art, Modern
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Book Rating : 072/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Slavs and Tatars by : Anthony Downey
Download or read book Slavs and Tatars written by Anthony Downey. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This form of political writing often called 'advice literature', shared by Christian and Muslim cultures alike, 'mirrors for princes' attempted to elevate statecraft ('dawla') to the same level as faith/religion ('din') during the Middle Ages.These guides for future rulers - Machiavelli's The Prince being a widely known example - addressed the delicate balance between seclusion and society, spirit and state, echoes of which we continue to find in the US, Europe, and the Middle East several centuries later.Today we suffer from the very opposite: there is no shortage of political commentary, but a notable lack of intelligent, eloquent discourse on the role of faith and the immaterial as a valuable agent in society or public life.This publication brings together the writing of preeminent scholars and commentators using the genre of medieval advice literature as a starting point to discuss fate and fortune versus governance, advice for female nobility, and an Indian television drama as a form of translation of statecraft. The illustrated essays are accompanied by an interview with Slavs and Tatars.Mirrors for Princes is edited by Anthony Downey, Editor-in-Chief of Ibraaz, and is published with NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery.
