Reinhardt, Nicole. Voices of conscience : royal confessors and political counsel in seventeenth-century Spain and France

Folger bibliographic ID: 354605
Folger call number: BX2262 .R45 2016
Folger holdings ID: 502784

This work 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.--Publishers description

Edition

First Edition

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

Partial Contents

Christian Princes, Counsellors, and Confessors. Councils and counselling: institutions -- Counsels and councillors: debates -- Royal confessors as counsellors : role and expertise -- Royal Sins: Definitions and Transformations (c.1550-c.1650). Identifying royal sins -- The end of just war as we know it? -- Taxes-old and new -- Acceptio personarum : justice, favours, and Merit -- Counsels of Conscience. Confessors at work -- A case study: the expulsion of the Moriscos -- Favourites and confessors -- How to be a Royal Confessor: from Prophecy to Ecclesiastical History. Confessors: courtiers and prophets? -- Being Seneca-Stoic lessons -- The confessor's paradox -- The Eloquence of Silence. The crisis of counsel of conscience -- The scandalous confessor -- Privatizing royal conscience -- Epilogue: the politics of private sins -The 'privatization' of politics

Extended title: Voices of conscience : royal confessors and political counsel in seventeenth-century Spain and France / Nicole Reinhardt

Confessors Spain France Kings and rulers

author: Reinhardt, Nicole