The Texts

Enrico Boccaccini

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Chapter 2 The Texts

In: Reflecting Mirrors, East and West: Transcultural Comparisons of Advice Literature for Rulers (8th - 13th century)

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Pages:: 74–114

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004498921_004

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Chapter 2, The texts, introduces the study’s four main primary sources in terms of their textual tradition, form, structure, content and the socio-politico-religious context of their composition. In spite of the paucity of historical evidence, an additional focus is laid on the reception of the Mirrors. The texts’ thorough contextualisation produces new insights on the various situations of crisis and reorientation that make these texts comparable. The analysis of the works’ potential functions and the historical context of their production sheds light on the roles that Mirrors played at court and adds to our understandings of the complex relations between author and addressee, advisor and ruler, teacher and pupil. Finally, the contextualisation of the texts provides an impression of the ways they have been traditionally studied by scholars, that is, what role they have been credited with and what aspects have attracted particular scholarly attention.

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Reflecting Mirrors, East and West: Transcultural Comparisons of Advice Literature for Rulers (8th - 13th century)

Series: Islamic History and Civilization, Volume: 189

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004498921

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 09 Nov 2021

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