Ambiguous antidotes : virtue as vaccine for vice in early modern Spain /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English Spanish Latin |
| Language Notes: | English text, with selections in Spanish, and selections in Latin with parallel English translations. |
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Toronto ; Buffalo ; London :
University of Toronto Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Toronto Iberic ;
30. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Prologue : virtuous genealogies
- Introduction. Virtue as a medical metaphor ; Correspondences of virtue to vice ; Antidotes ; Pharmakon ; The golden mean
- Blind justice
- Fleeting fortitude
- Charity as greed
- Loose chastity
- Prudence : panacea or placebo?
- Class trumps sex : the (en)gendering of virtue
- Conclusion. (Not just) the veneer of virtue ; Virtus or virus? ; Historical/literary roots ; Machiavellian virtù ; Erasmus at the theater
- Epilogue. Virtual virtue.