Portraying the Prince in the Renaissance

Patrick Baker, Ronny Kaiser, Maike Priesterjahn, Johannes Helmrath

What role do rulers play in historical texts and what determines the way they are portrayed? More fundamentally, what qualifies a text as a work of history, and what functions do such writings have with regard to rulers? This volume explores these themes, considering the national or regional, personal, discursive, and generic parameters that influenced the writing of history and the way rulers were depicted in humanist texts.