Models of Political Competence

The Evolution of Political Norms in the Works of Burgundian and Habsburg Court Historians, C. 1470-1700
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-23105-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 220, 150 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 397 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

Offering a systematic analysis of texts produced at the courts of Burgundy and Austrian Habsburg over a period reaching from the 1470s until the early 1700s, this book traces the development of the idea of successful and competent political behaviour as seen through the eyes of court historians between the fifteenth and the eighteenth centuries. The official chronicles and histories studied in this work not only reveal a growing influence of secular political thinking on the evolving model of political competence, but also present in detail the close relationship between the nascent state ideology and secular political theory.

More broadly, following the development of official history-writing, Models of Political Competence highlights the importance of historiography for the research on political thinking and its relevance for our understanding of the modern state in Europe and its origins.

Zielgruppe

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Golubeva, Maria

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.