A Critical Companion to the Mirrors for Princes Literature Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Reading Medieval Sources
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• Release Date : 02 June 2024

The literary genre collectively known as "mirrors for princes" offers key insights into political thoughts of the past. This volume explores the genre in a global and comparative historical perspective,

• Publisher : Jrp Ringier
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• Release Date : 02 June 2024

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/

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
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• Release Date : 02 June 2024

Global Medieval compares mirrors for princes from varied historical contexts and lineages of political thought in order to determine whether a genuine history of political thought in the premodern period

• Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
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• Release Date : 10 January 2020

A Companion to World Literature is a far-reaching and sustained study of key authors, texts, and topics from around the world and throughout history. Six comprehensive volumes present essays from

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 13 November 2008

This book will be of interest not only to students and scholars of medieval French literature but also to students and specialists of other medieval European languages, as well as

• Publisher : Franklin Classics
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• Release Date : 13 October 2018

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public

• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 09 August 2016

Through an examination of a wide range of medieval sources and a close textual study of the account about Ardashīr in the Shāhnāma, Nasrin Askari demonstrates that

• Publisher : Princeton University Press
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• Release Date : 01 May 1998

Discusses how European scientists from the High Middle Ages through the Enlightenment used wonders, monsters, curiosities, marvels, and other phenomena to envision the natural world.

• Publisher : Getty Publications
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• Release Date : 24 August 1995

Bridging the fields of conservation, art history, and museum curating, this volume contains the principal papers from an international symposium titled "Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice" at the

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• Release Date : 02 June 1978

In spite of all the papers that others have written about the manuscript, there is no complete survey of all the approaches, ideas, background information and analytic studies that have