"For your intent / \;In going back to school in Wittenberg\, / \;It is most retrograde to our desire: / \;And we beseech you\, bend you to remain / Here\, in the cheer and comfort of our eye\, / Our \;chiefest courtier\, cousin\, and our son.".
\nThe rather fearsome words of King Claudius in \;Shakespeare's Hamlet bring up the question of how princes should be educated in the early \;modern context\, a question that keeps its pertinence in the context of early modern non-royal\, \;civic education\, too. \;Mirrors for princes have been important means of civic and princely education ever since \;antiquity. Works of Xenophon\, Cicero\, Seneca and others also served as literary models for \;the centuries to come.
\nThe early modern (city-)states' strive for stability and prosperity\, led to \;the Renaissance rediscovery of such ancient writings which were used as models for instructing princes or city magistrates concerning the proper way of governance. The ethical \;and political philosophical attitude was\, however\, accompanied by a special interest in applied \;history - anachronistically speaking -\, and hence the works like Machiavelli's Prince\, \;Calvin's Commentary on Seneca's De Clementia\, or the Six Books of Politics or Political \;Instruction by Justus Lipsius now also serve as documents concerning how ethics\, politics and \;historical knowledge were intertwined in early modernity.
\nThe aim of our conference is to bring together scholars from different fields (moral and \;political philosophers\, historians\, historians of ideas\, literary historians etc.) in order to \;discuss and explore the state-of- the-art and novel trends in the research of this field. We \;welcome papers concerning any literary product belonging to the early modern genre of \;mirror for princes or dealing with the education of city magistrates or ordinary citizens.
\nProposals (with a title and abstract of the length of 3-500 words) should be sent by \;May 15\, \;2018 \;to \;fi.titkarsag@btk.mta.hu.
\nThe conference will be organised in Budapest\, at the \;headquarter of the Research Centre for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of \;Sciences on \;September 28-29\, 2018.
\nOur invited keynote speakers are \;James Hankins \;(Harvard University) and \;Jan Waszink \;(Leiden University)\, \;Tibor Fabiny \;(Ká\;roli Gá\;spá\;r University).
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