Kallendorf, Hilaire, 1974-
Ambiguous antidotes : virtue as vaccine for vice in early modern Spain /
Hilaire Kallendorf.
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, (c)2017.
- 1 online resource : color illustrations.
- Toronto Iberic ; 30 .
Includes bibliographies and index.
""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""Prologue: Virtuous Genealogies""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""I Virtue as a Medical Metaphor""; ""II Correspondences of Virtue to Vice""; ""III Antidotes""; ""IV Pharmakon""; ""V The Golden Mean""; ""1 Blind Justice""; ""2 Fleeting Fortitude""; ""3 Charity as Greed""; ""4 Loose Chastity""; ""5 Prudence: Panacea or Placebo?""; ""6 Class Trumps Sex: The (En)gendering of Virtue""; ""Conclusion""; ""I (Not Just) the Veneer of Virtue""; ""II Virtus or Virus?""; ""III Historical / Literary Roots"" ""IV Machiavellian Virtù""""V Erasmus at the Theatre""; ""Epilogue: Virtual Virtue""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index of Comedias""
In Ambiguous Antidotes, Hilaire Kallendorf explores the receptions of Virtues in the realm of moral philosophy and the artistic production it influenced during the Spanish Gold Age.