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Subject(s)

• Moral education—History [Browse]
• Ethics—History [Browse]
• Virtue—History [Browse]

Editor

• Hellerstedt, Andreas [Browse]

Series

• Knowledge communities (Amsterdam, Netherlands) [More in this series]
• Knowledge communities ; 4

Restrictions note

Open Access

Summary note

This book argues that premodern societies were characterized by the quest for "virtue." The concept of virtue, complicated and much fought-over, permeated society, encouraging wisdom, courage, and justice, while simultaneously legitimizing social hierarchies based on sex and nationality. By examining pedagogical texts, rituals, performances, and images, this book illuminates the evolution of virtue through time, helping readers understand the guiding principles of historical action.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Rights and reproductions note

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Language note

In English.

Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of contents
• List of figures
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction / Hellerstedt, Andreas
• Eustratius of Nicaea as a source for the Neoplatonist notion of levels of virtue in the Early Latin commentators on the Nicomachean Ethics / Eliasson, Erik
• Teaching virtue through the law / Tjällén, Biörn
• The tree and its fruit / Eyice, Mari
• Fostering civic virtue / Preste, Tania
• Dancing virtue / Rota, Stefano Fogelberg
• The path to virtue / Kolrud, Kristine
• Virtue and duty / Lindberg, Bo
• The Royal Rhetor / Nell, Jennie
• Antagonistic parents in Frances Brooke 's The Old Maid and The History of Julia Mandeville / Vance, Michaela
• Cracks in the mirror / Hellerstedt, Andreas
• Index

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ISBN

90-485-3510-7

OCLC

1051222081

Doi

• 10.1515/9789048535101

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