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Early modern kings adopted a new style of government, <i>Realpolitik</i>, as spelled out in Machiavelli’s writings. Tudor monarchs, well aware of their questionable right to the throne, posed as great dissimulators, similarly to the modern prince who “must learn from the fox and the lion”. This book paints a portrait of a successful politician according to early modern standards. Kingship is no longer understood as a divinely ordained institution, but is defined as goal-oriented policy-making, r
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- Author
- Urszula Kizelbach
- Publisher
- Brill
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789042038837
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Linguistics, Literary Criticism, Drama
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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