Evil lords : theories and representations of tyranny from antiquity to the Renaissance / edited by Nikos Panou and Hester Schadee.

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]

xii, 245 pages ; 25 cm.

By focusing on bad kingship, or tyranny, 'Evil Lords' offers innovative insights into pre-modern conceptions of sovereignty, as well as into the relation between ethics and politics, individual and society, and power and propaganda, as elaborated in a number of different contexts, periods, and genres from Antiquity to the Renaissance.

Online version: Panou, Nikos. Evil lords. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]

English

November 14, 2018

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Despotism > History.

History.