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Hur uppfostrar man en kung? Idéhistorikern Andreas Hellerstedt beskriver de tankar om bildning, fursteuppfostran och statskonst som formulerades i Sverige under 1600-talet, och som låg till grund för den undervisning som de blivande kungarna Karl XI och Karl XII fick. Fram träder en bild av -hjältar-, alltså kungar och envåldshärskare, som av naturen särskilt begåvade och rustade att härska. [Bokinfo]

Frontmatter --Table of contents --List of figures --Acknowledgements --Introduction /Hellerstedt, Andreas --Eustratius of Nicaea as a source for the Neoplatonist notion of levels of virtue in the Early Latin commentators on the Nicomachean Ethics /Eliasson, Erik --Teaching virtue through the law /Tjällén, Biörn --The tree and its fruit /Eyice, Mari --Fostering civic virtue /Preste, Tania --Dancing virtue /Rota, Stefano Fogelberg --The path to virtue /Kolrud, Kristine --Virtue and duty /Lindberg, Bo --The Royal Rhetor /Nell, Jennie --Antagonistic parents in Frances Brooke 's The Old Maid and The History of Julia Mandeville /Vance, Michaela --Cracks in the mirror /Hellerstedt, Andreas --Index

This book argues that premodern societies were characterized by the quest for "virtue." The concept of virtue, complicated and much fought-over, permeated society, encouraging wisdom, courage, and justice, while simultaneously legitimizing social hierarchies based on sex and nationality. By examining pedagogical texts, rituals, performances, and images, this book illuminates the evolution of virtue through time, helping readers understand the guiding principles of historical action.

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