Voices of Conscience - Royal Confessors Political Counsel in Seventeenth Century Spain

Zusatztext Reinhardt successfully uses royal confessors as a way of exploring wider intellectual and institutional change ... this is an impressive and surely definitive survey of French and Spanish royal confessors in the period, from which scholars of other governments may learn much -- while also sharpening their awareness of the importance of understanding the particularities of each system. The attention to both theory and practice is pleasing Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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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• Authors: Nicole Reinhardt, Nicole (Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Reinhardt, Reinhardt Nicole
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.10.2016
• EAN: 9780198703686
• ISBN: 978-0-19-870368-6
• No. of pages: 438
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 245 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Print on Demand
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, Religion & politics, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Religion and Politics, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Constitution: government & the state, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Religion, Politics & State, Constitution: government and the state