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1 online resource (xxxi, 342 pages) : illustrations |
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Mental and cultural world of Tudor and Stuart England.
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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 -- Seneca, Tacitus, and the Moral Universe of Neostoicism -- The Linguistic Universe of Neostoicism -- The Politics of Neostoicism -- Doctrine: The Method of Constancy -- Neostoicism in France -- Lipsius and English Humanism -- Chapter 1 The Constant Courtier: Sir Walter Ralegh in Jacobean England -- Ralegh and the vita activa |
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Ralegh on Seneca and TacitusRalegh and Political Prudence -- Ralegh's Legacy -- Chapter 2 Francis Bacon and the Advancement of Constancy -- Bacon and the Crisis in Learning -- Bacon and the Crisis in Humanism -- The Advancement of Learning as Apologia for Tacitism -- Bacon and the Stoics -- Bacon on Fortune, Virtue, and Prudence -- Bacon and the vita contemplativa -- Chapter 3 The Constant Friend: Fulke Greville's Life after Sidney -- Greville and the vita activa -- Right Reason and Grevillean Constancy -- Greville, Knowledge, and Prudence |
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Greville, Virtue, and CounselGreville, Authority, and Obedience -- Chapter 4 A Neostoic Scout: Ben Jonson and the Poetics of Constancy -- Life and Circle -- Learning, Humanism, and Religion: Jonson's Road to Constancy -- Politics and the Poetry of Constancy -- Chapter 5 Joseph Hall and 'That Proud Inconstant Lipsius': The English Face of Neostoicism? -- The Making of 'our English Seneca' -- Competing Moral Paradigms: Hall versus Bacon -- Hall and Theophrastus versus Tacitus -- Hall, Obedience, and Authority -- EPILOGUE: CONSTANCY IN THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION |
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Notesbibliography -- index -- a -- b -- c -- d -- e -- f -- g -- h -- i -- j -- k -- l -- m -- n -- o -- p -- q -- r -- s -- t -- v -- w -- z |
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Neo-Stoicism |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Lipsius, Justus, 1547-1606 -- Influence
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SUBJECT |
Lipsius, Justus, 1547-1606 fast |
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Political science -- England -- History -- 16th century
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Political science -- England -- History -- 17th century
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Humanists -- England
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- History & Theory.
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HISTORY -- Renaissance.
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Humanists
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Political science
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Geestesgeschiedenis.
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Neostoïcisme.
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England
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Electronic books
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e-books.
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History
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Livres numériques.
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781442673281 |
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1442673281 |
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