Maximilians Ruhmeswerk (German, Hardcover)

The essays in this volume explore the full scope of Maximilian s Ruhmeswerk, which adaptively incorporated different literary and aesthetic genres. They examine the Emperor s quest to become an uomo universale, or Renaissance man, in the context of the idea of self-fashioning at the focus of recent Renaissance research. In addition, the studies consider the impact of changing media conditions as a result of the invention of the printed book."