Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Figures ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. A Note on Texts, Sources, Translations, and Conventions xv
6. Prologue. Recovering the Lipsian Paradigm xix
7. Introduction: Justus Lipsius and the Doctrine of Constancy 1
8. Chapter 1. The Constant Courtier: Sir Walter Ralegh in Jacobean England 40
9. Chapter 2. Francis Bacon and the Advancement of Constancy 71
10. Chapter 3. The Constant Friend: Fulke Greville's Life after Sidney 102
11. Chapter 4. A Neostoic Scout: Ben Jonson and the Poetics of Constancy 138
12. Chapter 5. Joseph Hall and 'That Proud Inconstant Lipsius': The English Face of Neostoicism? 171
13. Epilogue. Constancy in the English Revolution 206
14. Notes 213
15. Bibliography 295
16. Index 331