Mirrors for Princes : Genuine Byzantine Genre or Academic Construct?
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/136459" target="_blank" >http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/136459</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/GLB2017-1-1" target="_blank" >10.5817/GLB2017-1-1</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Mirrors for Princes : Genuine Byzantine Genre or Academic Construct?
Original language description
The term 'Mirrors for Princes' occurs in commonly used handbooks of Byzantine literature. It denotes highly elaborated advisory works addressed to noble young men or even future emperors to instruct them on certain aspects of human conduct and on how to reign. This term, mentioned for the first time by Godfrey of Viterbo in the 12th century and imported by modern scholars from the literature of the western Middle Ages into the Byzantine milieu, was never used by the Byzantines themselves. Not only the foreign origin of the term, but also significant differences among particular writings classified as 'Mirrors for Princes' with respect to their literary form, language register, style, content, or purpose have made recent scholars question the application of this genre to Byzantine literature. Three main attitudes or approaches have arisen: the complete rejection of the term; a search for new criteria enabling a more reasonable genre taxonomy; and the formation of sub-categories within this genre to create more homogenous groups of literary works. The presented paper pursues two main aims. The first is to describe the development of the application of the genre 'Mirrors for Princes' to Byzantine literature in modern scientific works; the second, after defining recent general trends in scholarly approaches to Byzantine literature, is to judge the impact of these approaches on the criteria of genre taxonomy with respect to this particular genre.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60206 - Specific literatures
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Graeco-Latina Brunensia
ISSN
1803-7402
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
22
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
5-16
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85021892839