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1 online resource (438 pages) |
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Online access with subscription: University Press scholarship online (Oxford scholarship online)
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Cover; Voices of Conscience: Royal Confessors and Political Counsel in Seventeenth-Century Spain and France; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Chronological Overview of Royal Confessors; SPAIN; FRANCE; Introduction; PART I: CHRISTIAN PRINCES, COUNSELLORS, AND CONFESSORS; 1: Councils and Counselling: Institutions; THE FUZZINESS OF THE CONSEIL DU ROI; THE SPANISH COUNCIL SYSTEM; CONCLUSION; 2: Counsel and Councillors: Debates; THE BOTERIAN MOMENT; COUNSEL AND COUNCILLORS IN SPAIN; FRANCE: COUNCILLORS AND MINISTERS; CONCLUSION |
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3: Royal Confessors as Counsellors: Role and ExpertiseTHE CONFESSOR'S ROLE: THE BELLARMINIAN MODEL; THE CONFESSOR'S EXPERTISE: MORAL THEOLOGY AND THE SCIENCE OF CONSCIENCE; MORAL THEOLOGY AND THE RISE OF PROBABILISM; CONCLUSION; PART II: ROYAL SINS: DEFINITIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS (c.1550-c.1650); 4: Identifying Royal Sins; AZPILCUETA'S LIST; ORIGIN AND CHARACTER OF AZPILCUETA'S NORMATIVE FRAMEWORK; AFTER AZPILCUETA; CONCLUSION; 5: The End of Just War as We Know It?; JUST CAUSES; DOUBTFUL WAR AND DOUBTFUL CONSCIENCE; THEOLOGIA BELLICA; CONCLUSION; 6: Taxes-Old and New; AUCTORITAS IMPONENDI |
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JUST CAUSE AND JUST FORMTAXES, AUTHORITY, AND OPINION; CONCLUSION; 7: Acceptio personarum: Justice, Favours, and Merit; ACCEPTIO ACCORDING TO AQUINAS; EARLY MODERN DISCUSSIONS OF ACCEPTIO: QUESTIONS OF OWNERSHIP; DIGNITY: MERIT OR MONEY?; CONCLUSION; PART III: COUNSELS OF CONSCIENCE; 8: Confessors at Work; DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE; DEFENDING REGALISM; GALLICAN CONFESSORS?; TRUCE, PEACE, WAR!; CONCLUSION; 9: A Case Study: The Expulsion of the Moriscos; AVOIDING DECISIONS; ESTABLISHING CONSENSUS; EXECUTING A DECISION; CONCLUSION; 10: Favourites and Confessors; ALLIES?; ENEMIES? |
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CARDINAL RICHELIEU, NICOLAS CAUSSIN, AND THE POLITICAL LANGUAGE OF ROYAL CONSCIENCECONCLUSION; PART IV: HOW TO BE A ROYAL CONFESSOR: FROM PROPHECY TO ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY; 11: Confessors: Courtiers and Prophets?; FROM QUEVEDO'S GODLY POLITICS TO CAUSSIN'S HOLY COURT; SPEAKING LIKE A PROPHET: TRUE RELIGION, POLITICS, AND CONSCIENCE; PORTRAIT OF THE PROPHET AS A HOLY COURTIER: CONSTANCY, SACRIFICE, AND EXILE; CONCLUSION; 12: Being Seneca-Stoic Lessons; THE SPIRITUAL EXERCISE AND CHRISTIAN STOICISM; SENECA'S PROBLEMATIC EXEMPLARITY; CONCLUSION; 13: The Confessor's Paradox |
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THE SOURCES OF 'TRUTH'A 'READING LIST ' FOR ROYAL CONFESSORS; BERTRANDUS IN CUGNERIUM: SPIRITUAL AGAINST SECULAR POWER; CONCLUSION; PART V: THE ELOQUENCE OF SILENCE; 14: The Crisis of Counsel of Conscience; SPAIN: MODEL OR FAILURE?; FRANCE: IMPOSSIBLE COUNSEL?; CONCLUSION; 15: The Scandalous Confessor; FRANCE: JESUIT SUBVERSION; PASCAL'S LONG SHADOW: FROM LAXISM TO DESPOTISM; SPAIN: FACTIONAL CONFESSORS; CONCLUSION; 16: Privatizing Royal Conscience; FRANCE: IDEOLOGICAL CRISIS AND INSTITUTIONAL REORGANIZATION; SPAIN: ECLIPSE AND TRANSITION |
| Summary |
Examines the role of royal confessors as political counsellors in seventeenth-century Spain and France, and how, against the backdrop of the momentous intellectual, theological, and political shifts that marked this period, questions of conscience became a major argument in the hegemonic struggle between the two competing Catholic powers |
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REDEFINING ROYAL CONSCIENCE: TOWARDS AN ABSOLUTE ROYAL CONSCIENCE |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Confessors -- Spain -- History -- 17th century
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Confessors -- France -- History -- 17th century
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RELIGION -- Christian Rituals & Practice -- Worship & Liturgy.
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RELIGION -- Institutions & Organizations.
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Confessors
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Kings and rulers
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Spain -- Kings and rulers -- History -- 17th century
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France -- Kings and rulers -- History -- 17th century
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France
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Spain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191008702 |
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0191008702 |
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9780191772856 |
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0191772852 |
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