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maintain his authority, should be more knowledgeable than his subjects. This requirement is not only concerned with the type of knowledge needed for the immediate tasks of a monarch, but also liberal arts, minting of coins, foreign languages and manual labour skills. This scheme of education has attracted considerable debate regarding its humanistic nature (seemingly influenced by the emperor's friends, who had received a humanist education) and its universal validity. Elaine C.Tennant notes that the work pays attention to presenting "factual truth", and at the same time, does not shy away from narrative embellishment, in order to pursue a "higher truth", serving the author's propagandic intention. The readers are gently persuaded with a desirable picture of
Habsburg preeminence. For example, it is subtly hinted that the King of Flint (
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As the work is a mirror of princes, political arts play a prominent part. The author opines that a successful ruler relies on five bases of ruling: understanding of God, of the influence of planets, reason, gentleness and restraint in using violence. A ruler needs a humane education and in order to
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The work is composed of three sections. The first deals with the life of
Frederick III. The second covers the life of Maximilian from his birth to his marriage in 1477, describing his upbringing and inclinations. The third continues with his reign up to 1513, ending abruptly with the Battle of
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suitable for a larger, less elite audience, but was unable to carry out that project. Maximilian did not intend the work to be published commercially; copies were presented to specially selected recipients. Although a print was made in 1526, the full work was not published until 1775.
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is a "unique mixture of history and heroic romance". The work is also a mirror of princes, intended for his successors, other princes and members of the expanding imperial bureaucratic class. Apparently
Maximilian also planned to produce a
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Habsburg ancestors. He referred to these projects as
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Ruling the Waves: Emperor
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