Patrick Baker

Johannes Helmrath

Ronny Kaiser

Maike Priesterjahn

The portrayal of princes plays a central role in the historical literature of the European Renaissance. The sixteen contributions collected in this volume examine such portrayals in a broad variety of historiographical, biographical, and poetic texts. It emerges clearly that historical portrayals were not essentially bound by generic constraints but instead took the form of res gestae or historiae, discrete or collective biographies, panegyric, mirrors for princes, epic poetry, orations, even commonplace books – whatever the occasion called for. Beyond questions of genre, the chapters focus on narrative strategies and the transformation of ancient, medieval, and contemporary authors, as well as on the influence of political, cultural, intellectual, and social contexts. Four broad thematic foci inform the structure of this book: the virtues ascribed to the prince, the cultural and political pretensions inscribed in literary portraits, the historical and literary models on which these portraits were based, and the method that underlay them. The volume is rounded out by a critical summary that considers the portrayal of princes in humanist historiogrpahy from the point of view of transformation theory.

The Humanist Depiction of Rulers in Historiographical and Biographical Texts

Portraying the Prince in the Renaissance

Heribert Müller

Festschrift für Erich Meuthen

Studien zum 15. Jahrhundert

Eva Marlene Hausteiner

Ulf Jensen

Wie transformiert die Antike nach-antikes Wissen - und wie wird sie selbst in diesem Prozess transformiert? Welche Akteure und Verfahren bestimmen die Transformation, und was ist ihr Ergebnis? In diesem Band unterziehen Geistes- und SozialwissenschaftlerInnen die Konzepte der Transformation und Allelopoiese in der Beschreibung historischen und kulturellen Wandels einer Anwendungsprüfung. In sieben Debatten - vom antiken Babylon bis nach Hollywood, und von der Kunstgeschichte bis zur Politischen Theorie - werden die Forschungsergebnisse des Sonderforschungsbereichs „Transformationen der Antike" auf ihre Anwendbarkeit und Anschlussfähigkeit hin geprüft. Antike als Transformation stellt so das dynamische Nachleben der Antike zur Debatte, analysiert aber auch die grundlegende Herausforderung einer Beschreibung kulturellen Wandels.

Konzepte zur Beschreibung kulturellen Wandels

Antike als Transformation

Stefan Schlelein

Albert Schirrmeister

Inscriptions, coins, literary models and classical Latin are elements of ancient culture to which recourse was made in the Renaissance. To what extent did they, in the process, shape humanistic historiography? The authors discuss the question by investigating the consequences that using a particular language have on historical writings, and analyse how historiographical models were adapted to the contemporary environment. Finally, they ask how the humanists’ enthusiasm for ancient remains manifested itself in historiography.

Medien und Sprachen humanistischer Geschichtsschreibung

Johannes Helmrath

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