Slavs and Tatars
Title | Slavs and Tatars PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Downey |
Publisher | Jrp Ringier |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Art, Modern |
ISBN | 9783037644072 |
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/religion ('din') during the Middle Ages.These guides for future rulers - Machiavelli's The Prince being a widely known example - addressed the delicate balance between seclusion and society, spirit and state, echoes of which we continue to find in the US, Europe, and the Middle East several centuries later.Today we suffer from the very opposite: there is no shortage of political commentary, but a notable lack of intelligent, eloquent discourse on the role of faith and the immaterial as a valuable agent in society or public life.This publication brings together the writing of preeminent scholars and commentators using the genre of medieval advice literature as a starting point to discuss fate and fortune versus governance, advice for female nobility, and an Indian television drama as a form of translation of statecraft. The illustrated essays are accompanied by an interview with Slavs and Tatars.Mirrors for Princes is edited by Anthony Downey, Editor-in-Chief of Ibraaz, and is published with NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery.
Mirror for Princes
Title | Mirror for Princes PDF eBook |
Author | Tom De Haan |
Publisher | Random House (UK) |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780099581703 |
The Medieval Reception of the Shāhnāma as a Mirror for Princes
Title | The Medieval Reception of the Shāhnāma as a Mirror for Princes PDF eBook |
Author | Nasrin Askari |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 409 |
Release | 2016-08-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004307915 |
Nasrin Askari explores the medieval reception of Firdausī’s Shāhnāma, or Book of Kings (completed in 1010 CE) as a mirror for princes. Through her examination of a wide range of medieval sources, Askari demonstrates that Firdausī’s oeuvre was primarily understood as a book of wisdom and advice for kings and courtly elites. In order to illustrate the ways in which the Shāhnāma functions as a mirror for princes, Askari analyses the account about Ardashīr, the founder of the Sasanian dynasty, as an ideal king in the Shāhnāma. Within this context, she explains why the idea of the union of kingship and religion, a major topic in almost all medieval Persian mirrors for princes, has often been attributed to Ardashīr.
A Lancastrian Mirror for Princes
Title | A Lancastrian Mirror for Princes PDF eBook |
Author | Rosemarie McGerr |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2011-11-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0253356415 |
The Yale New statutes manuscript and medieval English statute books : similarities and differences -- Royal portraits and royal arms : the iconography of the Yale New statutes manuscript -- The Queen and the Lancastrian cause : the Yale New statutes manuscript and Margaret of Anjou -- Educating the prince : the Yale New statutes manuscript and Lancastrian mirrors for princes -- "Grace be our guide" : the cultural significance of a medieval law book.
Mirrors for Princes
Title | Mirrors for Princes PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Keeley |
Publisher | Georgetown University Press |
Pages | 446 |
Release | 2024-09-02 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1647124549 |
A historical look at the roots of management theory reveals its flaws and offers important lessons for today's leaders For four thousand years, kings and queens ruled the known world, while management experts—in the guises of sages, clerics, and courtiers of all kinds—told them how to do it. These proto-experts in leadership, ethics, and strategy wrote books describing the perfect prince. In such books, rulers could seek and polish their own reflection, as in a looking glass. These books were called mirrors for princes. Mirrors for Princes documents the clichés of this genre of literature. Typical mirrors taught the same formula, over and over: that people behave badly because of their pursuit of self-interest, which needs to be harnessed to a common goal by the ruler or leader. Eighteenth-century revolutions spelled the demise of princes and led to books that sought instruct them. Today, the clichés of mirrors for princes live on in modern mirrors for managers. The rhetoric of common goals and transformational leadership has a pleasing resonance for top managers, affirming their authority, just as it did for kings and queens in mirrors for princes. Keeley's goal is to sensitize readers to these clichés and to provide today's business leaders with the tools to think more critically when reading business books. Mirrors for Princes concludes with advice for writers of management literature, suggesting how organizational theorists and business ethicists might avoid replicating the clichés of mirrors for princes by adopting a social-contract model of organizations.
A Mirror for Princes from India
Title | A Mirror for Princes from India PDF eBook |
Author | Ernst J. Grube |
Publisher | |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Contributed research papers.
Reflecting Mirrors, East and West: Transcultural Comparisons of Advice Literature for Rulers (8th - 13th century)
Title | Reflecting Mirrors, East and West: Transcultural Comparisons of Advice Literature for Rulers (8th - 13th century) PDF eBook |
Author | Enrico Boccaccini |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 2021-11-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004498923 |
In Reflecting Mirrors, East and West Enrico Boccaccini investigates the transcultural phenomenon of advice literature for rulers, commonly referred to as Mirrors for Princes, by bringing together, for the first time, texts from multiple literary traditions.