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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 0 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
