Evil Lords: Theories and Representations of Tyranny from Antiquity to the RenaissanceEvil Lords uses the prism of bad rule or tyranny to enhance our understanding of political discourse from the ancient world to the Renaissance, elucidating premodern notions of sovereignty as well as the relation between ethics and politics, the individual and society, power, and propaganda. Eleven chapters present case studies exploring Hebrew, Graeco Roman, Byzantine, early, high and late medieval, and Renaissance conceptions and representations of