Giedre Mickunaite

Making a Great Ruler (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Investigating the propaganda surrounding the grand duke, this study reveals that, in fact, there were two opposite images: that of a good ruler and that of a tyrant. The paradox is that frequently these opposites were based on the same features of the grand duke's character or episodes from his biography. The research is based on a wide array of written and visual sources as well as on records of oral tradition. Rich and diverse primary materials are analysed from the perspectives of political and social history, memorial culture, as well as iconography and rhetoric.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Central European University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9786155211072
• Artikelnr.: 66238349

Autorenporträt

Giedre Mickunaite focuses on temporal dimensions of pictorial and verbal imagery. She explores structures of cultural legacy and regards oblivion as a vehicle in production of late medieval and early modern culture. Since 2003, Mickunaite teaches and carries art historical research at the Vilnius Academy of Arts in Lithuania.

Inhaltsangabe

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
LIST OF FIGURES
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
A NOTE ON PERSONAL AND GEOGRAPHIC NAMES
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I. VYTAUTAS CREATING HIS OWN IMAGE THE EARLY YEARS
CHAPTER II. THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY: SHAPING OF THE IMAGE
CHAPTER III. THE EARLY-MODERN IMAGE OF VYTAUTAS
CHAPTER IV. IMAGE AND IMAGE
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX OF PERSONAL NAMES
INDEX OF GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES AND PEOPLES
SUBJECT INDEX