Neagoe Basarab - Princeps Christianus: The Semantics of Christianitas in Comparison with Erasmus, Luther and Machiavelli (1513-1523)

The field of political theology in the Orthodox traditions of Europe in post-Byzantine times is an almost unknown area. The book offers a comparison of four mirrors for princes from the beginning of the sixteenth century. The main focus is on Neagoe Basarab, Lord of Wallachia between 1512 and 1521 and his political treatise.

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.