Ambition, a history from vice to virtue /
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| Natura: | Elettronico eBook |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
2013.
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Sommario:
- From Vice to Christian Sin
- Ambition as Sin in Early Modern English Culture : Perilous Acts of Self-Elevation, Subversive Acts of Self-Negation
- The Plague and Countervailing Passions
- Harnessing Ambition in the Age of Exploration
- Epilogue.