Constant Minds : : Political Virtue and the Lipsian Paradigm in England, 1584-1650 / / Adriana McCrea.
In response to the crisis provoked by the Wars of Religion in Europe in the sixteenth century, the Flemish philosopher Lipsius developed a synthesis of stoic morality and Tacitean political analysis called 'the Lipsian paradigm,' or neostoicism. The paradigm espoused the adaptation to prev...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©1997 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Mental and Cultural World of Tudor and Stuart England
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (338 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Texts, Sources, Translations, and Conventions
- Prologue. Recovering the Lipsian Paradigm
- Introduction: Justus Lipsius and the Doctrine of Constancy
- Chapter 1. The Constant Courtier: Sir Walter Ralegh in Jacobean England
- Chapter 2. Francis Bacon and the Advancement of Constancy
- Chapter 3. The Constant Friend: Fulke Greville's Life after Sidney
- Chapter 4. A Neostoic Scout: Ben Jonson and the Poetics of Constancy
- Chapter 5. Joseph Hall and 'That Proud Inconstant Lipsius': The English Face of Neostoicism?
- Epilogue. Constancy in the English Revolution
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index