Models of political competence : the evolution of political norms in the works of Burgundian and Habsburg court historians, c. 1470-1700 / by Maria Golubeva
Military, institutional and discursive competence as seen by Burgundian court historians, c. 1470 -c. 1500 -- Politics into fiction: Maximilian's transformation of the Burgundian model -- The rise of the confessional model -- The revival of civic humanism, raison d' âetat and the incompetence of subjects in the histories of Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato -- Mismanagement and Other Virtues: The construction of secular political competence in the historiography of Gottlieb Eucharius Rinck
Summary
Offering a systematic analysis of texts produced between the court of Burgundy in the 1470s and the court of the Austrian Habsburgs in 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
