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Introduction.Towards a more balanced view of Justus Lipsius's political writings and their influence /General tendencies.Exempla, prudence and casuistry in Renaissance political discourse /History and exemplarity in the work of Lipsius /Stoicism in political humanism and natural law /Rhetorics, history and exemplarity.Monita et exempla politica as example of a genre /Rhetoric and exemplarity in Justus Lipsius's Monita et exempla politica /Justus Lipsius and the challenge of historical exemplarity /Justus Lipsius and the cento form /Virtues and politics.Fate and rule, destiny and dynasty :Lipsius's final views on superstition, fate and divination in the Monita et exempla politica (1605) /The Clementia Lipsiana :political analysis, autobiography and panegyric /Prudence in Lipsius's Monita et exempla politica :stoic virtue, Aristotelian virtue or not a virtue at all? /Secret compensation :a friendly and lawful alternative to Lipsius's political thought /Lipsius's heritage.Carolus Scribani and the Lipsian legacy :the Politico-Christianus and Lipsius's image of the good prince /A Lipsian legacy :neo-absolutism, natural law and the decline of reason of state in France 1600-1760 /Erik De Bom ... [et al.] --Mikael Hörnqvist ;Harro Höpfl ;Bo Lindberg --Ann Moss ;Marjike Janssens ;Harold E. Braun ;George Hugo Tucker --Jan Papy ;Violet Soen ;Diana Stanciu ;Wim Decock --Erik De Bom ;Jacob Soll.

Starting from Justus Lipsius's "Monita et exempla politica"(1605), this book offers a collection of essays dealing with the disputed Macchiavellian, Tacitean or Neostoic character of Lipsius's political thought, and its impact on the dynamics of political discourse in Early Modern Europe.