Charisma, Medieval and Modern

• Main Author: Peter Iver Kaufman (Ed.) (auth)
• Other Authors: Gary Dickson (Ed.) (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2014
• Subjects: celebrity; cult; heroism; Weber; charisma; social memory
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

What is striking about this collection is that all the writers testify to one fact-the extraordinary fruitfulness of Max Weber's idea of charisma. Proof of the capaciousness of the Weberian idea of charisma is its diffusion outside the academic community, although "charisma" as popula...