Cultures & Practices
Heroes are corporeal beings, and they are often admired for the physical achievements that they have performed and/or that are attributed to them. The corporeality of heroic figures is therefore an important point of reference for heroizations and at the centre of numerous hero (re)presentations and narratives. In essential terms, a differentiation must be made…
The term ‚virtus heroica‘ (‚heroic virtue‘) regularly appears in the Reformation and early Protestantism. Originally from the Latin translation of Aristotle’s „Nicomachean Ethics“ (Eth. Nic.), the term is often used by Protestant authors in ethics textbooks. However, in the early modern period, the term already encompassed the general characterisation of heroic deeds and qualities as…