Stoics and Neostoics: Rubens and the Circle of Lipsius

by Mark P.O. Morford

Book Overview

In a vivid re-creation of late sixteenth-century Flemish intellectual life, Mark Morford explores the intertwined careers of one of the period's most influential thinkers and one of its most original artists: Justus Lipsius and Peter Paul Rubens. He investigates the scholarship of Lipsius (1547-1606), whose revival of Roman Stoicism guided his contemporaries during the revolt of the Netherlands from the rule of Spain and whose teaching prepared...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691608865
• ISBN13: 9780691608860
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"