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A Buckler, Against Adversitie

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Also known as: “De la constance et consolation ès calamités publiques”

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A Buckler, Against Adversitie, 1622). In this work he put forward an amalgam of Stoicism and Christianity that was well calculated to appeal to readers in a France torn apart by civil war. Philosophers such as Justus Lipsius had already attempted to fuse Christian and Stoic…
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