Voices of Conscience
Royal Confessors and Political Counsel in Seventeenth-Century Spain and France
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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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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Voices of Conscience analyzes how the link between politics and conscience was articulated and shaped throughout the seventeenth century by confessors who acted as counsellors to monarchs. Against the backdrop of the momentous intellectual, theological, and political shifts that marked this period, the study examines comparatively how the ethical challenges of political action were confronted in Spain and France and how questions of conscience became a major argument in the hegemonic struggle between the two competing Catholic powers.As Nicole Reinhardt demonstrates, 'counsel of conscience' was not a peripheral feature of early-modern political culture, but fundamental for the definition of politics and conscience. Tracing the rise and fall of confessors as counsellors reveals the parallel transformation of both, approaching a historical understanding of the modernisation of politics with the idea of an 'individual conscience' at its heart. Placed at the junction of norms and practices, royal confessors, directly or in oblique reflection, shaped the ways in which the royal conscience was identified and scrutinized. By the same token, the royal confessors' expertise and activities remained a source of anxiety and conflict that triggered wide debate on the relationship between State and Church, religion and politics.
The notion of 'counsel of conscience', of which this book provides the first in-depth analysis, allows the reader to re-examine and challenge fundamental historical paradigms such as the emergence of 'absolutism', individualisation, and the division of public and private. Putting theological concepts and religious dimensions back into political theory and practice sheds new light, not only on the importance of counselling for early modern statecraft, but also on the reconfiguration of the normative frameworks underlying it.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Voices of Conscience “
- Introduction
- Part I: Christian princes, counsellors, and confessors
- 1: Councils and counselling: Institutions
- 2: Counsel and councillors: Debates
- 3: Royal confessors as counsellors: role and expertise
- Part II: Royal Sins: definitions and transformations (ca. 1550-1650)
- 4: Identifying Royal sins
- 5: The end of just war as we know it?
- 6: Taxes - old and new
- 7: Acceptio personarum: justice, favours, and merit
- Part III: Counsels of Conscience
- 8: Confessors at work
- 9: A case study: The Expulsion of the Moriscos
- 10: Favourites and confessors
- Part IV: How to be a Royal Confessor: from prophecy to ecclesiastical history
- 11: Confessors: courtiers and prophets?
- 12: Being Seneca - Stoic Lessons
- 13: The confessor's paradox
- Part V: The Eloquence of Silence
- 14: The crisis of counsel of conscience
- 15: The scandalous confessor
- 16: Privatizing royal conscience
- Epilogue: the politics of private sins - the 'privatisation' of politics
- Sources and Bibliography
Autoren-Porträt von Nicole Reinhardt
Nicole Reinhardt studied History and Romance Languages at the universities of Heidelberg, Coimbra, and Freiburg i.Br. She holds a PhD in History and Civilization from the European University Institute in Florence. Before taking up the post at Durham University in 2009 she taught early modern history at the universities of Rostock and Lyon 2 and worked as a DAAD-Lecturer at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Nicole Reinhardt
- 2016, 438 Seiten, Maße: 17 x 24,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0198703686
- ISBN-13: 9780198703686
- Erscheinungsdatum: 20.10.2016
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
This is an ambitious book that draws together topics that, though related, are often treated separately or secondarily in the existing literature . . . On the whole, the comparative approach that Reinhardt has taken in Voices of Conscience enables her to make an effective case for the steady divergence of politics from royal conscience over the seventeenth century, and for the slow retreat of the confessor to the private sins of the king and the political margins . . . the breadth of the author's source work and her commitment to the fullest possible study of conscience counselling, the seal of the confessional notwithstanding, is admirable. Offering numerous insights into the power, potential, and limits of religious counsel. Voices of Conscience is a learned book and an absorbing read. Alison Forrestal, H- France
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