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Format: 1 online resource (378 p.)

ISBN: 9786155211072

Content: Investigating the propaganda surrounding the grand duke, this study reveals that, in fact, there were two opposite images: that of a good ruler and that of a tyrant. The paradox is that frequently these opposites were based on the same features of the grand duke's character or episodes from his biography. The research is based on a wide array of written and visual sources as well as on records of oral tradition. Rich and diverse primary materials are analysed from the perspectives of political and social history, memorial culture, as well as iconography and rhetoric.

Note: Frontmatter -- , TABLE OF CONTENTS -- , ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- , LIST OF FIGURES -- , LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- , A NOTE ON PERSONAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES -- , INTRODUCTION -- , CHAPTER I. VYTAUTAS CREATING HIS OWN IMAGE -- , CHAPTER II. THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY: SHAPING OF THE IMAGE -- , CHAPTER III. THE EARLY-MODERN IMAGE OF VYTAUTAS -- , CHAPTER IV. IMAGE AND IMAGE -- , CONCLUSIONS -- , SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- , INDEX OF PERSONAL NAMES -- , INDEX OF GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES AND PEOPLES -- , SUBJECT INDEX , In English.

Language: English

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9786155211072

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Format: 1 online resource (xx, 337 p., [16] p. of plates ) , ill. (some col.), plans ;

ISBN: 615-5211-07-8 , 1-281-37677-9 , 9786611376772 , 1-4294-1343-3

Content: How does a ruler become "the Great"? Is greatness a part of authority exercised or a part of an image created? These and other questions are addressed in this volume on the life and memory of Grand Duke Vytautas of Lithuania (r.1392-1430). The study raises a hypothesis that Vytautas was the main engineer of his image as the great ruler while his contemporaries and later generations developed this image and adapted it to their needs and understandings. Investigating the propaganda surrounding the grand duke, this study reveals that, in fact, there were two opposite images: that of a good ruler and that of a tyrant. The paradox is that frequently these opposites were based on the same features of the grand duke's character or episodes from his biography. The research is based on a wide array of written and visual sources as well as on records of oral tradition.

Note: TRAITEMENT SOMMAIRE. , Titre de l'ecran-titre (visionne le 8 août 2011). , Vytautas creating his own image -- The fifteenth century : shaping of the image -- The early-modern image of Vytautas -- Image and image.

Additional Edition: ISBN 963-7326-58-8

Language: English

Keywords: History. ; Biographies. ; Livres electroniques.