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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Mental and cultural world of Tudor and Stuart EnglandPublisher: Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 1997Copyright date: ©1997Description: 1 online resource (375 pages) : illustrations, portraitsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442673281 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Constant minds : political virtue and the Lipsian paradigm in England, 1584-1650.DDC classification:
  • 199.493 21
LOC classification:
  • B785.L4 .M337 1997
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Investigates Lipsian ideas in the moral, political, and literary culture of late 16nth- and early 17th-century England through examination of the writings and activities of Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, Fulke Greville, Ben Jonson, and Joseph Hall.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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McCrea argues that notions of constancy derived from writings of the Flemish neo-Stoic philosopher Justus Lipsius influenced the thought and practice of five early modern Englishmen: Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Bacon, Ben Jonson, Fulke Greville, and Bishop Joseph Hall. Her book provides convenient sketches of the life, times, and philosophies of its subjects. McCrea's method of close reading suggests the existence of a series of Lipsian contexts rather than a paradigm, but she is to be commended for revealing the impact of Continental trends on the development of English political culture and for detecting problems that connected the experiences of the war-torn 1590s with those of the revolutionary 1640s. McCrea concludes that Lipsianism served as an ethic of "survival and participation," ultimately forming one of the philosophical tributaries of classical republicanism during the English Commonwealth. Historians of early modern politics will find much to contend with in this sweeping argument. Graduate students and faculty. M. C. Noonkester William Carey College

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