Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2014
ISBN (Hardback): 9781349485123
Full citation:
Martijn Icks, Eric Shiraev (eds), Character assassination throughout the ages, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Character assassination throughout the ages
Contents
Character attack and invective speech in the roman republic
Cicero as target
Henriette van der Blom
37-57
Reports about the "sex life" of early Roman emperors
a case of character assassination?
Jan Meister
59-81
Falsifying the prophet
muhammad at the hands of his earliest Christian biographers in the West
Kenneth Baxter Wolf
105-120
Louis of Orléans, Isabeau of bavaria, and the Burgundian propaganda machine, 1392–1407
Tracy Adams
121-134
A newcomer in defamatory propaganda
youth (late fourteenth to early fifteenth century)
Gilles Lecuppre
135-148
The ass in the seat of st. Peter
defamation of the pope in early Lutheran flugschriften
Bobbi Dykema
153-171
Odious and vile names
political character assassination and purging in the French revolution
Mette Harder
173-190
"As awkward and deficient as his wife is amiable and accomplished"
the character assassination of the dutch statesman Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (1761–1825)
Edwina Hagen
191-209
The Gao-Rao affair
a case of character assassination in Chinese politics in the 1950s
Eric Shiraev, Zi Yang
237-252