Braun / Vallance The Renaissance Conscience

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-9679-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 176 Seiten, E-Book

This book presents one of the first studies of the Renaissancenotion of conscience, through examining theological manuals, legaltreatises, letters and other sources of the period.
* Represents one of the few modern studies exploring developmentsin scholastic and Renaissance notions of conscience
* Synthesizes literary, theological and historicalapproaches
* Presents case studies from England and the Hispanic World thatreveal shared traditions, strategies, and conclusions regardingmoral uncertainty
* Sheds new light on the crises of conscience of ordinary people,as well as prominent individuals such as Thomas More
* Offers new research on the ways practical theologians inEngland, Spain, and France participated in political debate andinteracted with secular counsellors and princes

Autoren/Hrsg.

Braun, Harald E.

Vallance, Edward

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on contributors ix
Introduction (Harald E. Braun and EdwardVallance) 1
1 Jean Gerson, moral certainty and the Renaissance of ancientScepticism (Rudolf Schüssler) 11
2 Conscience and the law in Thomas More (BrianCummings) 29
3 'Guided By God' beyond the Chilean frontier: the travellingearly modern European conscience (AndrewRedden) 52
4 Shakespeare's open consciences (ChristopherTilmouth) 67
5 Women's letters, literature and conscience insixteenth-century England (James Daybell)82
6 The dangers of prudence: salus populi suprema lex, RobertSanderson, and the 'Case of the Liturgy' (EdwardVallance) 100
7 The Bible, reason of state, and the royal conscience: JuanMárquez's El governadorchristiano (Harald E. Braun) 118
8 Spin doctor of conscience? The royal confessor and theChristian prince (Nicole Reinhardt) 134
Index 157

Über Autor(innen)

Harald E. Braun is Lecturer in European History (1300-1700)at the University of Liverpool. His publications include Juan deMariana SJ (1535-1624) and Early Modern Spanish PoliticalThought (2007).
Edward Vallance is Reader in Early Modern History atLondon's Roehampton University. His most recent publication is ARadical History of Britain: Visionaries, Rebels andRevolutionaries, the Men and Women Who Fought for Our Freedoms(2009).