Character Assassination throughout the Ages

Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Character Assassination: How Political Psychologists May Assist Historians; Eric Shiraev Ancient Rome 2. Character Attack and Invective Speech in the Roman Republic: Cicero as Target; Henriette van der Blom 3. Reports about the 'sexual life' of early Roman emperors: A case of character assassination?; Jan Meister 4. Creating Tyrants in Ancient Rome: Character Assassination and Imperial Investiture; Martijn Icks 5. Editorial reflections: Ancient Rome The Middle Ages 6. Falsifying the Prophet: Muhammad at the Hands of his Earliest Christian Biographers in the West; Kenneth Wolf 7. Louis of Orléans, Isabeau of Bavaria, and the Burgundian Propaganda Machine, 1392-1407; Tracy Adams 8. A Newcomer in Defamatory Propaganda: Youth (Late Fourteenth to Early Fifteenth Century); Gilles Lecuppre 9. Editorial Reflections: Medieval Cases The Early Modern Age 10. The Ass in the Seat of St. Peter: Defamation of the Pope in early Lutheran Flugschriften; Bobbi Dykema 11. Odious and Vile Names: Political Character Assassination and Purging in the French Revolution; Mette Harder 12. Edwina Hagen 13. Editorial Reflections: Early Modern Cases The Modern Age 14. Character Attacks and American Presidents; Jason Smart and Eric Shiraev 15. The Gao-Rao Affair: A Case of Character Assassination in Chinese Politics in the 1950s; Eric Shiraev and Zi Yang 16. A Character Assassination Attempt: The Case of Václav Havel; Martina Klicperová-Baker 17. Editorial Reflections: Modern Cases Epilogue ?