Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE: From Vice to Christian Sin -- CHAPTER TWO: Ambition as Sin in Early Modern English Culture: Perilous Acts of Self-Elevation, Subversive Acts of Self-Negation -- CHAPTER THREE: The Plague and Countervailing Passions -- CHAPTER FOUR: Harnessing Ambition in the Age of Exploration -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.