Constant minds : political virtue and the Lipsian paradigm in England, 1584-1650 / Adriana McCrea.

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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

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

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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