Models of Political Competence

Biographical note Readership Table of contents

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

approx. 170 pp.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

Biographical note

Maria Golubeva, Ph.D. (1999), Cambridge University, has published a number of articles and one monograph on the representation and political ideology of the Austrian Habsburgs. She is also an active education policy adviser working on policy projects in several countries.

Readership

All interested in the development of state ideology in pre-modern Europe or in the development of history writing and official historiography in early modern Europe, as well as anyone interested in the history of secular political thought.

Acknowledgements
Introduction

I: Military, institutional and discursive competence as seen by Burgundian court historians, c. 1470 – c. 1500

II: Politics into fiction: Maximilian’s transformation of the Burgundian model

III: The rise of the confessional model

IV: The revival of civic humanism, raison d’ état and the incompetence of subjects in the histories of Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato

V: Mismanagement and Other Virtues: The construction of secular political competence in the historiography of Gottlieb Eucharius Rinck

Conclusions
Bibliography
Index of Persons

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