1st Edition
Virtue Ethics and Education from Late Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century
Edited By Andreas Hellerstedt
Copyright 2018
334 Pages
by
Routledge
334 Pages
by
Routledge
This book argues that pre-modern societies were characterized by a common quest for human flourishing or excellence, i.e. virtue. The history of virtue is a particularly fruitful approach when studying pre-modern periods. Systems of moral philosophy and more day-to-day moral ideas and practices in which virtue was central were incredibly important in pre-modern societies within and among diverse... Read more
1. Introduction (Andreas Hellerstedt) 2. Eustratius of Nicaea as a Source to the Neoplatonist Notion of the Levels of Virtue in the Early Latin Commentators on the Nicomachean Ethics (Erik Eliasson) 3. Teaching Virtue Through the Law: Justice and Royal Authority in Giles of Rome's De regimine principum (c.1280) (Biörn Tjällén) 4. The Tree and its Fruit. The Problem of Good Deeds in the Swedish Reformation (Mari Eyice) 5. Fostering Civic Virtue: Johannes Messenius and Swedish School Drama (Tania Preste) 6. Dancing Virtue: Educational Aspects in Queen Christina's Court Ballets (Stefano Fogelberg Rota) 7. The Path to Virtue: Dancing the Education of Achilles and the Nereids (Kristine Kolrud) 8. Virtue and Duty: Academic Moral Discourse in 17th Century Sweden (Bo Lindberg) 9. The Royal Rhetor: Princely and Common Virtues in the Operas and Plays of Gustavus III (Jennie Nell) 10. Antagonistic Parents in Frances Brooke's The Old Maid and The History of Julia Mandeville (Michaela Vance) 11. Cracks in the Mirror: Changing Conceptions of Political Virtue in Mirrors for Princes in Scandinavia from the Middle Ages to ca 1700 (Andreas Hellerstedt)
Biography
Andreas Hellerstedt (editor) is an intellectual historian (Stockholm University) specialized on the early modern period. His main research interests lies in political thought in Northern Europe ca 1650-1750. Since 2013, he has been the research coordinator of the inter-disciplinary project Teaching Virtue, based at the Department of History, Stockholm University and funded by Riksbankens jubileumsfond. He is co-editor of the recent volume Shaping Heroic Virtue, the result of a previous project out of which the current project grew.
