Neagoe Basarab – Princeps Christianus

Mihai-D. Grigore is a historian and scholar of religion. He is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Religious History at the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz, Germany. Mihai-D. Grigore studied Orthodox Theology at the University of Bucharest, specialising in historical theology and Byzantine history. He obtained his PhD in Church History from the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen and Nuremberg, Germany, with a dissertation on historical anthropology about honour in medieval West-Frankish society, based on a case study of the Peace of God in the tenth and eleventh centuries. He was then postdoctoral researcher at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies and in the research group ‘World Regions and Interactions: Area Studies, Transregionally’, both in Erfurt. In 2012, he was Stanley S. Seeger Research Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies at Princeton University.

• CONTENTS: Introduction: Beyond Concepts – Neagoe Basarab: A Christian Prince in the Early Sixteenth Century – Erasmus of Rotterdam and His Education of a Christian Prince: On the Ethical Theomimesis of the Christian Prince – On Secular Authority: Martin Luther and the Prince as Servant – Rule and Method: Machiavelli’s Prince and the Dispensable Semantics of Christianitas – Conclusion: Beyond Concepts, in the Thick of Semantics.