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1 online resource (334 pages). |
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Knowledge communities |
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Knowledge communities.
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| Summary |
This book argues that pre-modern 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. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 |
| Note |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 06, 2018). |
| Subject |
Virtue -- History.
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Ethics -- History.
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Moral education -- History.
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HISTORY / Civilization.
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HISTORY / Essays.
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HISTORY / Reference.
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HISTORY / Social History.
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HISTORY / Europe / General.
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Ethics. (OCoLC)fst00915833
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Moral education. (OCoLC)fst01026058
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Virtue. (OCoLC)fst01167712
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Hellerstedt, Andreas, editor. Editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Virtue ethics and education from Late Antiquity to the eighteenth century. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018] 9789462984448 (OCoLC)1019665104 |
| ISBN |
9789048535101 (electronic book) |
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9048535107 (electronic book) |
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9789462984448 |
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9462984441 |
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